labored

Meaning of labored

verb, past tense
  1. work hard; make great effort.
    they laboured from dawn to dusk
    she was patiently labouring over her sketchbooks
  2. have difficulty in doing something despite working hard.
    United laboured against confident opponents
  3. (of a woman in childbirth) be in labour.
    she laboured very well and comfortably because she was relaxed

Middle English: from Old French labour (noun), labourer (verb), both from Latin labor ‘toil, trouble’.

adjective
  1. done with great effort and difficulty.
    his breathing was laboured

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Hyphenation of labored

la-bored

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • labored is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

labored synonyms

Meaning laboured:

strained

Meaning heavy:

heavy

Meaning work extremely hard or incessantly:

toil

Meaning make forceful or violent efforts to get free of restraint or constriction:

struggle

Meaning struggle or fight vigorously:

strive

Meaning cause (someone) to work beyond their capacity or strength:

overwork

Meaning insert (a shoot or twig) as a graft:

graft

Meaning do hard menial work:

drudge

Meaning engage in painful or laborious effort:

travail

Meaning work hard:

moil

Meaning try hard to do or achieve something:

endeavour

Meaning be engaged in physical or mental activity in order to achieve a result; do work:

work

Meaning take part in a violent struggle involving the exchange of physical blows or the use of weapons:

fight

Meaning exert force on (someone or something) in order to move them away from oneself:

push

Meaning needing much effort or skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand:

difficult

Meaning (of a gesture or expression) produced or maintained with effort; affected or unnatural:

forced

Meaning (of speech or writing style) showing obvious signs of effort and lacking in fluency:

laborious

Meaning causing difficulty; hard to do or deal with:

awkward

labored antonyms

Meaning cease work or movement in order to relax, sleep, or recover strength:

rest

Meaning make or become less tense or anxious:

relax

Meaning spend time in a relaxed, lazy manner:

laze

Meaning achieved without great effort; presenting few difficulties:

easy

Anagrams of labored

dolabre

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