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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LA'BORED, pp. Tilled; cultivated; formed with labor.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating" [syn: labored, laboured, strained]
2: requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading" [syn: heavy, labored, laboured]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1608 produced or performed with labor <labored breathing>; also lacking ease of expression <a labored speech>

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Labored La"bored, a. Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Labor La"bor, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Labored; p. pr. & vb. n. Laboring.] [OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare. See Labor, n.] [Written also labour.] 1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil. Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden. --Milton. 2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains. 3. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of. The stone that labors up the hill. --Granville. The line too labors,and the words move slow. --Pope. To cure the disorder under which he labored. --Sir W. Scott. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. --Matt. xi. 28 4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth. 5. (Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea. -- Totten.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Overwrought, stiff, heavy, smelling of the lamp.

Moby Thesaurus

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