travail

Noun

• use of physical or mental energy; hard work
  • he got an A for effort
    
  • they managed only with great exertion
    

• concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
  • she was in labor for six hours
    

Verb

• work hard
  • She was digging away at her math homework
    
  • Lexicographers drudge all day long
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  effort , elbow grease , exertion , sweat , parturiency , labor , labour , confinement , lying-in , childbed , toil , fag , grind , drudge , dig , moil