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laboured

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laboured or US, Austral & sometimes Canad labored
Adjective
undertaken with difficulty: laboured breathing
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Adj.1.laboured - lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating"
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.laboured - requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"
effortful - requiring great physical effort

laboured
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laboured (US), labored [ˈleɪbəd] adjlourd(e)laborieux/euse; [breathing] → difficile, pénible; [style] → lourd, embarrassé(e)
laboured [ˈleɪbəd] labour adj [breathing] → schwer; [movement, style] → schwerfällig
laboured, labored [ˈleɪbəd] adj [breathing] → affaticato/a, affannoso/a ; [style] → elaborato/a, pesante


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Impelled by the combination of Misfortunes under which I laboured, namely Fear, Cold and Hunger I hesitated not to ask admittance which at length I have gained; and now my Adorable Laura (continued he taking my Hand) when may I hope to receive that reward of all the painfull sufferings I have undergone during the course of my attachment to you, to which I have ever aspired.
I drank every day, and whenever opportunity offered I drank to excess; for I still laboured under the misconception that the secret of John Barleycorn lay in drinking to bestiality and unconsciousness.
Some of our highest and ablest men, men of real genius, have during their earliest days laboured under deviations as great as, or even greater than, forty-five minutes: and the loss of their precious lives would have been an irreparable injury to the State.
 
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