labored
Meaning of labored
verb, past tense
- work hard; make great effort.
they laboured from dawn to dusk
she was patiently labouring over her sketchbooks
- have difficulty in doing something despite working hard.
United laboured against confident opponents
- (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- 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:
Meaning heavy:
Meaning work extremely hard or incessantly:
Meaning make forceful or violent efforts to get free of restraint or constriction:
Meaning struggle or fight vigorously:
Meaning cause (someone) to work beyond their capacity or strength:
Meaning insert (a shoot or twig) as a graft:
Meaning do hard menial work:
Meaning engage in painful or laborious effort:
Meaning work hard:
Meaning try hard to do or achieve something:
Meaning be engaged in physical or mental activity in order to achieve a result; do work:
Meaning take part in a violent struggle involving the exchange of physical blows or the use of weapons:
Meaning exert force on (someone or something) in order to move them away from oneself:
Meaning needing much effort or skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand:
Meaning (of a gesture or expression) produced or maintained with effort; affected or unnatural:
Meaning (of speech or writing style) showing obvious signs of effort and lacking in fluency:
Meaning causing difficulty; hard to do or deal with:
labored antonyms
Meaning cease work or movement in order to relax, sleep, or recover strength:
Meaning make or become less tense or anxious:
Meaning spend time in a relaxed, lazy manner:
Meaning achieved without great effort; presenting few difficulties:
Anagrams of labored
Words that rhyme with labored
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