Laboured meaning

Simple past tense and past participle of labour.
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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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Sentence Examples

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

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

  • If he recovers from the depression, the local symptoms begin to play a much more important part than in cobra-poisoning: great swelling and discoloration extending up the limb and trunk, rise of temperature and repeated syncope, and laboured respiration.

  • They laboured carefully in copying books, being instant continually in sacred study and devout meditation.

  • 17) not only ruled but also " laboured in the word and in teaching."

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