Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Produced or done with effort.
- adjective Lacking natural ease; strained.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Laboriously formed; made or done with laborious pains or care.
- Bearing the marks of constrained or forced effort; not easy, natural, or spontaneous: as, a labored style of composition; a labored painting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural
- adjective appearing to require strong effort.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
labor . - adjective Of an action that is
difficult toperform .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective requiring or showing effort
- adjective lacking natural ease
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Examples
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Brad DeLong of the University of California, Berkeley, who thinks the Fed should do much more, complained, "The mountain labored and gave birth to a mouse."
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She paused, descending into some distant, nether reverie, and stared at the fish as if in labored communication with it.
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She paused, descending into some distant, nether reverie, and stared at the fish as if in labored communication with it.
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It was important to find out how the noise is made, she explained in labored tones.
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Dr. Hammond mopped the sweat from his forehead, his round red cheeks heaving in labored breath.
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Dr. Hammond mopped the sweat from his forehead, his round red cheeks heaving in labored breath.
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"He labored from the first pitch on but he did everything he could to keep us in the game," Yost said.
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Captain Montgomery stared, his mouth open, his breath rasping out in short, labored gasps.
Prayers To Broken Stones Simmons, Dan 1990
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Clothahump nodded, his breath coming in short, labored THE DAY OF THE DISSONANCE 3 gasps.
The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984
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Clothahump nodded, his breath coming in short, labored gasps.
The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984
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