From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Labored \La"bored\, a.
1. Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought;
not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
[1913 Webster]
2. appearing to require strong effort; as, labored breathing.
Syn: heavy, laboured.
[WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
[1913 Webster]
Adam, well may we labor still to dress
This garden. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any
design; to strive; to take pains.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
The stone that labors up the hill. --Granville.
[1913 Webster]
The line too labors, and the words move slow.
--Pope.
[1913 Webster]
To cure the disorder under which he labored. --Sir
W. Scott.
[1913 Webster]
Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest. --Matt. xi. 28
[1913 Webster]
4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be
in labor.
[1913 Webster]
5. (Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent
sea. --Totten.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
labored
adj 1: lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating" [syn:
{labored}, {laboured}, {strained}]
2: requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject
made for labored reading" [syn: {heavy}, {labored},
{laboured}]
|
