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labored

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la·bored  (lbrd)
adj.
1. Produced or done with effort: the labored breathing of a very ill person.
2. Lacking natural ease; strained: a labored style of debating.
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Adj.1.labored - lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating"
laboured, strained
awkward - lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance; "an awkward dancer"; "an awkward gesture"; "too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes"; "his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot"
2.labored - requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"
laboured, heavy
effortful - requiring great physical effort


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Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
For two days they labored to tear a way through to their imprisoned friends; but when, after Herculean efforts, they had unearthed but a few yards of the choked passage, and discovered the mangled remains of one of their fellows they were forced to the conclusion that Tarzan and the second Waziri also lay dead beneath the rock mass farther in, beyond human aid, and no longer susceptible of it.
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He knocked again, harder than before, for behind him he heard the steps and the labored breathing of his persecutors.
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