labored

verb

Meaning

To toil, to work.
To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
Expressive of strenuous effort.
Of writing or speech or similar, stilted or not natural due to too much effort being used in the production.

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