Labored
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Labored \La"bored\, a.
1. Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought;
not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
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2. appearing to require strong effort; as, labored breathing.
Syn: heavy, laboured.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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Adam, well may we labor still to dress
This garden. --Milton.
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2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any
design; to strive; to take pains.
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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.
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The stone that labors up the hill. --Granville.
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The line too labors, and the words move slow.
--Pope.
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To cure the disorder under which he labored. --Sir
W. Scott.
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Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest. --Matt. xi. 28
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4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be
in labor.
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5. (Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent
sea. --Totten.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
104 Moby Thesaurus words for "labored":
Herculean, Latinate, affected, alliterating, alliterative,
arabesque, arduous, artificial, assonant, awkward, backbreaking,
baroque, belabored, bombastic, burdensome, busy, chanting, chichi,
chiming, cliche-ridden, clumsy, contrived, cramped, crushing,
cumbrous, difficult, dingdong, effortful, elaborate, elegant,
elephantine, excessive, fancy, farfetched, fine, flamboyant,
florid, flowery, forced, formal, frilly, fussy, grueling, guinde,
halting, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, harping, heavy, hefty,
high-wrought, humdrum, inept, inkhorn, jingle-jangle, jog-trot,
killing, laborious, leaden, lumbering, luxuriant, luxurious,
maladroit, monotone, monotonous, moresque, onerous, operose,
oppressive, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate,
overelegant, overlabored, overworked, overwrought, painful,
picturesque, pompous, ponderous, pretty-pretty, punishing, rhymed,
rhyming, rich, rococo, sesquipedalian, singsong, stiff, stilted,
strained, strenuous, tedious, toilsome, tough, troublesome, turgid,
unnatural, unwieldy, uphill, wearisome, weighty
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