Synonyms & related words for travails

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Words related to travails

Explore words related to travails — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include toil, travailing, labor, tribulations, hardships, moil, toilful, exertion. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Where does travails come from?

The word travails breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root travail-, from Latin trepalium (“instrument of torture”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.