(~s)
You can refer to unpleasant hard work or difficult problems as ~. (LITERARY)
He did whatever he could to ease their ~.
N-VAR
(~s)
You can refer to unpleasant hard work or difficult problems as ~. (LITERARY)
He did whatever he could to ease their ~.
N-VAR
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012