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English Dictionary: labored	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for labored
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
labored adj lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating" [syn: labored, laboured, strained] requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading" Synonym(s): heavy, labored, laboured
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Labor \La"bor\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Labored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Laboring}.] [OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare. See {Labor}, n.] [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. --Milton. 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. --Granville. The line too labors,and the words move slow. --Pope. To cure the disorder under which he labored. --Sir W. Scott. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. --Matt. xi. 28 4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth. 5. (Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea. -- Totten.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Labored \La"bored\, a. Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.