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Labored

To toil, to work.

📖 Definitions of "Labored"

verb
  1. 1

    To toil, to work.

  2. 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. 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. 4

    To suffer the pangs of childbirth.

adjective
  1. 1

    Expressive of strenuous effort.

    "At the end of the marathon, her laboured breathing told us she was exhausted."

  2. 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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