Travail: alternatives and connections

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

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A wearing off or away.

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The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a…

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The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence.

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The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; o…

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of Exercise

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Excessive exertion.

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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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of Rub

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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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of Strain

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To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

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The act of supererogating; performance of more than duty or necessity requires.

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To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

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The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

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Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.

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Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort di…

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productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

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The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.

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A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.

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Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort di…

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Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort di…

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Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful.

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Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful.

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of Undertake

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of Undertake

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The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.

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The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence…

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The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).

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The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.

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The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with young.

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The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.

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Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.

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To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, o…

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To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.

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An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle…

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The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort…

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A knot or coarse part in cloth.

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To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.

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Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort di…

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productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

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The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement.

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To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.

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Parturition.

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of Sweat

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A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.

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