travail
tra-vail
noun
Intense, difficult, and often painful effort or work.
"Years of creative travail led to the masterpiece."
verb
To engage in arduous or painful effort; to toil or struggle.
"They travailed for years to build their dream."
Thesaurus
Synonyms: sweat, elbow grease, effort, exertion, lying-in, childbed, labor, parturiency, confinement, labour, toil, drudge