Definition of Labored
Adjective: labored ley-burd
Usage: US (elsewhere: laboured)
- Lacking natural ease
"a labored style of debating";
- laboured [Brit, Cdn], strained
- Requiring or showing effort
"the subject made for labored reading";
- heavy, laboured [Brit, Cdn]
Usage: US (elsewhere: labour)
- Strive and make an effort to reach a goal
"She labored for years to make a decent living";
- tug, labour [Brit, Cdn], push, drive, sweat
- Work hard
"Lexicographers labor all day long";
- labour [Brit, Cdn], toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil [N. Amer]
- Undergo the efforts of childbirth
- labour [Brit, Cdn]
See also:
laboratory
laboredly
Anagrams containing the word labored