Definitions for labored

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labored la·bored

Spelling: [ley-berd]

IPA: /ˈleɪ bərd/

Labored is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 268 anagrams from letters in labored (abdelor).

Definitions for labored

noun

1. productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
2. the body of persons engaged in such activity, especially those working for wages.
3. this body of persons considered as a class (distinguished from management and capital).
4. physical or mental work, especially of a hard or fatiguing kind; toil.
5. a job or task done or to be done.
6. the physical effort and periodic uterine contractions of childbirth.
7. the interval from the onset of these contractions to childbirth.
8. (initial capital letter). Also called Labor Department. Informal. the Department of Labor.

adjective

1. done or made with difficulty; heavy:
2. exhibiting a great deal of effort; lacking grace, fluency, or spontaneity:
3. of or relating to workers, their associations, or working conditions:

verb (used with object)

1. to develop or dwell on in excessive detail:
2. to burden or tire:
3. British Dialect. to work or till (soil or the like).

verb (used without object)

1. to perform labor; exert one's powers of body or mind; work; toil.
2. to strive, as toward a goal; work hard (often followed by for):
3. to act, behave, or function at a disadvantage (usually followed by under):
4. to be in the actual process of giving birth.
5. to roll or pitch heavily, as a ship.

Origin of labored

First recorded in 1525-35; labor + -ed²

Examples for labored

Others held him up as a great statesman who labored for international peace.

At the same time he labored assiduously in other directions.

On her thwarts two figures, dipping and rising, labored with the sweeps.

One has a black pixie haircut that must have been labored over for hours in a salon, or it could be a wig.

He and Tom labored like Trojans to take off the wheel, and put on the other.

Bin Laden, Zawahiri, and their associates were caught off guard by the storm and have labored to understand its impact.

But on the first two and greatest articles of his creed, how Jasper labored!

Rarely in modern history have so many in Washington labored so hard and produced so little.

That was a very long, labored death scene, which worked very well in the end.

These damned New Yorkers had no idea of the pressure under which he labored.