laboured

Verb

simple past tense and past participle of labour

Adjective

(comparative more laboured, superlative most laboured)

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

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At this he laboured in vacation time for at least ten years.
They laboured carefully in copying books, being instant continually in sacred study and devout meditation.
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.
Although the idol of his victorious army, and in a position enabling him to exercise autocratic power, he laboured unostentatiously for more than a year and a half as a member of the parliament, whose authority he supported to the best of his ability.
On the whole, there is no reason to doubt Occam's honest adhesion to each of the two guides whose contrariety he laboured to display.

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