laboured
Academic Word List, sublist 1.
About 0.86 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Expressive of strenuous effort.
At the end of the marathon, her laboured breathing told us she was exhausted.
- adjective Of writing or speech or similar, stilted or not natural due to too much effort being used in the production.
- verb simple past and past participle of labour
Similar words
labored effortful strained heavy awkward laborious arduous time-consuming hard-working industrious
Often followed by
to under in for with and at hard so
Word family
labor labored labors labour labouring labours
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