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labored 音标拼音: [l'ebɚd] a. 吃力的,缓慢的;不自然的,矫揉造作的 吃力的,缓慢的;不自然的,矫揉造作的 labored adj 1: lacking natural ease; " a labored style of debating" [ synonym: { labored}, { laboured}, { strained}] 2: requiring or showing effort; " heavy breathing"; " the subject made for labored reading" [ synonym: { heavy}, { labored}, { laboured}] Labored \ La" bored\, a. 1. Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style. [ 1913 Webster] 2. appearing to require strong effort; as, labored breathing. Syn: heavy, laboured. [ WordNet 1. 5]
Labor \ La" bor\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Labored}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Laboring}.] [ OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare. See { Labor}, n.] [ Written also { labour}.] 1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one' s strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil. [ 1913 Webster] Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To exert one' s powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one' s work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of. [ 1913 Webster] The stone that labors up the hill. -- Granville. [ 1913 Webster] The line too labors, and the words move slow. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] To cure the disorder under which he labored. -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster] Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. -- Matt. xi. 28 [ 1913 Webster] 4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea. -- Totten. [ 1913 Webster] 104 Moby Thesaurus words for " labored": Herculean, Latinate, affected, alliterating, alliterative, arabesque, arduous, artificial, assonant, awkward, backbreaking, baroque, belabored, bombastic, burdensome, busy, chanting, chichi, chiming, cliche- ridden, clumsy, contrived, cramped, crushing, cumbrous, difficult, dingdong, effortful, elaborate, elegant, elephantine, excessive, fancy, farfetched, fine, flamboyant, florid, flowery, forced, formal, frilly, fussy, grueling, guinde, halting, hard, hard- earned, hard- fought, harping, heavy, hefty, high- wrought, humdrum, inept, inkhorn, jingle- jangle, jog- trot, killing, laborious, leaden, lumbering, luxuriant, luxurious, maladroit, monotone, monotonous, moresque, onerous, operose, oppressive, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overworked, overwrought, painful, picturesque, pompous, ponderous, pretty- pretty, punishing, rhymed, rhyming, rich, rococo, sesquipedalian, singsong, stiff, stilted, strained, strenuous, tedious, toilsome, tough, troublesome, turgid, unnatural, unwieldy, uphill, wearisome, weighty
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