laboured in English

adjective

1

done with great effort and difficulty.

his breathing was becoming less labored

synonyms: strained, difficult, forced, laborious

verb

1

work hard; make great effort.

they labored from dawn to dusk in two shifts

synonyms: work, work hard, toil, slave (away), grind away, struggle, strive, exert oneself, work one's fingers to the bone, work like a dog, work like a Trojan, slog away, plug away, travail, moil, strive, struggle, endeavor, work, try, work hard, try hard, make every effort, do one's best, do one's utmost, do all one can, give one's all, go all out, fight, put oneself out, apply oneself, exert oneself, bend/lean/fall over backwards, pull out all the stops, bust a gut, bust one's chops

adjective

strained, difficult, forced, laborious
contrived, strained, stilted, forced, stiff, unnatural, artificial, overdone, ponderous, overelaborate, laborious, unconvincing, overwrought
heavy
strained

verb

work, strive, overemphasize, suffer from, push, grind
work, work hard, toil, slave (away), grind away, struggle, strive, exert oneself, work one's fingers to the bone, work like a dog, work like a Trojan, slog away, plug away, travail, moil
strive, struggle, endeavor, work, try, work hard, try hard, make every effort, do one's best, do one's utmost, do all one can, give one's all, go all out, fight, put oneself out, apply oneself, exert oneself, bend/lean/fall over backwards, pull out all the stops, bust a gut, bust one's chops
overemphasize, belabor, overstress, overdo, strain, overplay, make too much of, exaggerate, dwell on, harp on
suffer from, be a victim of, be deceived by, be misled by
push, tug, drive
grind, dig, fag, drudge, moil, travail, toil

Use "laboured" in a sentence

1. The tractor laboured up the hillside.

2. They laboured along the bad road.

3. He laboured for his children.

4. Her breathing was heavy and laboured.

5. The climbers laboured up the hillside.

6. The horses laboured up the steep slope.

7. They have laboured to complete the job.

8. The old man laboured up the hillside.

9. We laboured all day in the fields.

10. They laboured all day in the mills.

11. Some of the episodes are very laboured.

12. Her breathing became more and more laboured.

13. The peasant laboured for a mere pittance.

14. The ship laboured through the rough seas.

15. We laboured mightily to rebuild the walls.

16. The soldiers laboured their way in the storm.

17. ‘‘Thank you,’ said Dan, with laboured Breeziness.’

18. The passengerliner laboured in the ruffled sea.

19. They laboured for the happiness of mankind.

20. The mine workers laboured on through the night.

21. 24 The horses laboured up the steep slope.

22. They laboured to make the empire internally consistent.

23. He laboured to finish the job on time.

24. Every Noisegate hallucination has clearly been meticulously laboured over.

25. They laboured for years to clear their son's name.

26. The movie looks laboured and slow by today's standards.

27. His breathing was laboured, and he could hardly speak.

28. His breathing laboured, loud as a stag's in rut.

29. 10 Every Noisegate hallucination has clearly been meticulously laboured over.

30. We laboured hard to finish our job ahead of schedule.

31. 16 synonyms for Contrived: forced, planned, laboured, strained, artificial, elaborate, unnatural

32. The prose of his official communications was so laboured, pompous and verbose.

33. From his slow walk and laboured breathing, Ginny realized he was far from well.

34. It is these beneficial insects which have laboured to maintain the equilibrium undisturbed .

35. The other symptoms are loss of appetite , laboured breathing , cough , weakness , vomitting and diarrhoea .

36. Her ladyship had laboured assiduously to acquire the art of penmanship since her marriage.

37. He observed that his daughter was heavily sedated and that her breathing was extremely laboured.

38. Synonyms for Beavered away include toiled, ground, grinded, labored, laboured, slaved, drudged, plodded, plowed and ploughed

39. Synonyms for Contrived include artificial, forced, strained, unnatural, laboured, affected, elaborate, false, feigned and overdone

40. Synonyms for Constrained include forced, guarded, inhibited, reserved, unnatural, artificial, contrived, labored, laboured and mannered

41. You have laboured up an unending hill with heavy feet which are swollen, sore and tired.

42. The fitters laboured to modify the jeeps for desert travel and to a completely novel specification.

43. Aarhus (oar -hus) has long laboured in the shadow of consummate capital Copenhagen, but transformation is afoot.

44. He agreed to accept my advice after I had earnestly laboured with him for the whole morning.

45. In the 1930s leading Soviet engineers arrested by Stalin laboured in special prison laboratories within the gulag.

46. Substantial puddings like these were once a vital fuel and restorative for those who laboured in the fields.

47. The inquest heard that the operation was cancelled as during Dr McGinley's attempts to Anaesthetise Evie her breathing became laboured and then her heart rate fell

48. Stop trying to cut open your Buttonholes with dull seam rippers! This little chisel cuts sharp, beautiful openings without snipping the threads you just laboured to sew

49. None of us would have admitted that we believed in stone or elixir, the old Oxfordshire clergyman excited no belief, yet one among us certainly laboured with crucible or Athanor.

50. ‘Jokes are laboured and Belaboured; situations are overindulged and run to exhaustion before they end.’ ‘But let's not belabor this Peter Pan thing any longer.’ ‘At the risk of belabouring the point, let me cite just one other publication dealing with this question.’