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verb

Labor v. i. (past & past part. labored; pres. part. laboring) (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."

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." "The line too labors, and the words move slow." "To cure the disorder under which he labored." "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."

4.

To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.

5.

(Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

adjective

Labored adj.

1.

Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.

2.

Appearing to require strong effort; as, labored breathing.

Synonyms: heavy, laboured.

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Etymology of 'Labored'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Labored" Quotes from Famous Books

... Sioux, lives near Fort Snelling. He is exerting himself to the utmost to promote the moral welfare of the unhappy people among whom he expects to pass his life. He has a school for the Indian children, and many of them read well. On the Sabbath, divine service is regularly held, and he has labored to promote the cause of temperance among the Sioux. Christian exertion is unhappily too much influenced by the apprehension that little can be done for the savage. How is it with the man on his fire-water mission to the Indian? Does he doubt? Does ...

— Dahcotah - Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling • Mary Eastman

... and patronage, Palestrina labored five years at the Lateran, ten years at Santa Maria Maggiore and twenty three at Saint Peter's. At the last named it was his second term, of course, but it continued from 1571 to his death. He was happy in ...

— The World's Great Men of Music - Story-Lives of Master Musicians • Harriette Brower

... soldier-pastor who led his flock to battle, and who now sleeps in an English graveyard; and Antoine Court, who formed this "church in the desert," into a more compact body. The first of these pastors was hanged for "heresy" at Montpellier, in 1698; but he, together with his successors, labored so devoutly and so ardently, that the persecuted remnant rose from the dust and proved themselves valiant for the truth as they had received and believed it. It was not possible that the seed of a people which had learnt the sermons preached to them ...

— Elizabeth Fry • Mrs. E. R. Pitman

... this time that Simon Ford's ancestors penetrated into the bowels of Caledonian earth, and lived there ever after, from father to son. They were but plain miners. They labored like convicts at the work of extracting the precious combustible. It is even believed that the coal miners, like the salt-makers of that ...

— The Underground City • Jules Verne

... "Abyssinian Maid," and her dulcimer which she never got a tune out of. We all know there was good reason why Coleridge should have been infirm of purpose. But when we look at that great unfinished picture over which Allston labored with the hopeless ineffectiveness of Sisyphus; when we go through a whole gallery of pictures by an American artist in which the backgrounds are slighted as if our midsummer heats had taken away half the artist's life and vigor; when we walk round whole rooms full of sketches, impressions, ...

— Ralph Waldo Emerson • Oliver Wendell Holmes

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