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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Labor \La"bor\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Labored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Laboring}.] [OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare. See {Labor}, noun] [Written also {labour}.]
1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden. --Milton.
2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
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.
The stone that labors up the hill. --Granville.
The line too labors, and the words move slow. --Pope.
To cure the disorder under which he labored. --Sir W. Scott.
Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. --Matt. xi. 28
4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
5. (Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea. --Totten.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Labored \La"bored\, adjective
1. Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
2. appearing to require strong effort; as, labored breathing.
Syn: heavy, laboured. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
labored
adjective
1: lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating" [syn: {laboured}, {strained}]
2: requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading" [syn: {heavy}, {laboured}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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