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laboured

 
Adjective laboured has 2 senses
  1. labored, laboured, strained - lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating"
    Antonym: graceful (indirect, via awkward)
  2. heavy, labored, laboured - requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"
    Antonym: effortless (indirect, via effortful)
Verb labour has 3 senses
  1. labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil - work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
    --1 is one way to work, do work
    Derived forms: noun labour4, noun labourer1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP
  2. tug, labor, labour, push, drive - strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"
    --2 is one way to fight, struggle
    Derived form: noun labour4
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
  3. labor, labour - undergo the efforts of childbirth
    --3 is one way to experience, receive, have, get, undergo
    Derived form: noun labour2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
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