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verb

Labor v. i. (past & past part. labored; pres. part. laboring) (Written also labour)

1.

To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil. "Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden."

2.

To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.

3.

To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; often with under, and formerly with of. "The stone that labors up the hill." "The line too labors, and the words move slow." "To cure the disorder under which he labored." "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."

4.

To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.

5.

(Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

adjective

Labored adj.

1.

Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.

2.

Appearing to require strong effort; as, labored breathing.

Synonyms: heavy, laboured.

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Etymology of 'Labored'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Labored" Quotes from Famous Books

... passion of loving loyalty ending in an infatuation as absurd as it was unhappy. Before the Queen left Kensington Palace she was much annoyed by the persistent attentions of a provincial admirer, a respectable gentleman, who labored under the hallucination that it was his destiny and his duty to espouse the Queen. He may have felt a preference for private life and rural pleasures, but as a loyal patriot he was ready to make the sacrifice. He drove in a ...

— Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood • Grace Greenwood

... his writings, with a prefatory sketch of his life, by the Rev. Alfred Suckling, LL.B. The editor had access to a few private MSS., which, in our judgment, have not served to modify the previous accounts of Sir John's character, in spite of the labored efforts of his namesake—and, it may be, descendant—to that effect. The memoir and critical remarks appended are well written, though partial; and the work is the more valuable for the reason that only a few hundred copies of it ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... lad, as he labored to close the shed door, "this is a blow all right, Tom! Do you think it's ...

— Tom Swift and his Air Glider - or, Seeking the Platinum Treasure • Victor Appleton

... deserted that evening, but wandering about the house I found Madeline in the library alone. She was reading, but I went in and sat down near her. I felt that, although I could not do so fully, I must in a measure explain my conduct of the night before. She listened quietly to a somewhat labored apology I made for the words I ...

— Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 • Various

... days he'd spent in that down-state hotel—in the intervals of fighting off the torturing jingle of that tune, and the memory of the dull frozen agony he'd seen in Rose's face as he left her. No great result, truly. The mountain had labored and brought forth ...

— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster

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