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1. Lacking natural ease
   "a laboured style of debating"
   - labored [US], strained
    
2. Requiring or showing effort
   "the subject made for laboured reading"
   - heavy, labored [US]

1. Strive and make an effort to reach a goal
   - tug, labor [US], push, drive
    
2. Work hard
   - labor [US], toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil [N. Amer]
    
3. Undergo the efforts of childbirth
   - labor [US]

See also: awkward, effortful, labourer [Brit, Cdn]

Type of: do work, fight, struggle, undergo, work

Encyclopedia: Labour