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laboured   (TTS Sound)

The verb labour has 3 senses

• labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil -- (work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long")


• 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")


• labor, labour -- (undergo the efforts of childbirth)

The adj laboured has 2 senses

• labored, laboured, strained -- (lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating")


• heavy, labored, laboured -- (requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading")