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labored |
3 definitions found 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. 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: labored adj 1: lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating" [syn: {laboured}, {strained}] 2: requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading" [syn: {heavy}, {laboured}]
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