📖 Definitions of "Labored"
verb
- 1
To toil, to work.
- 2
To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
"I think we've all got the idea. There's no need to labour the point."
- 3
To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
- 4
To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
adjective
- 1
Expressive of strenuous effort.
"At the end of the marathon, her laboured breathing told us she was exhausted."
- 2
Of writing or speech or similar, stilted or not natural due to too much effort being used in the production.
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