Laboured Definition

verb

Simple past tense and past participle of labour.

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adjective

Of an action that is difficult to perform.

At the end of the marathon, her laboured breathing told us she was exhausted.
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Of writing or speech or similar, stilted or not natural due to too much effort being used in the production.

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Laboured Sentence Examples

  • At this he laboured in vacation time for at least ten years.

  • He laboured assiduously amongst them for fifteen months, and at the end of 1543 returned to Goa.

  • He also laboured to improve his English style by translation, particularly from the French.

  • At the end of 1909 there were in connexion with the " National Council of Adult-School Associations " 1818 " schools " for men with laboured to secure the religious teaching of slaves.

  • The first to enter the field were the Jesuits and Dominicans, who laboured on the south-east coast and among the subjects of the monomotapa (see Portuguese East Africa).

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