Laboured is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LABOURED in dictionary:

VERB:
• LABOUR, to work, also LABOR
• work hard; make great effort
• work at an unskilled manual occupation
• till (the ground)
• have difficulty in doing something despite working hard
• move or proceed with difficulty
• (of an engine) work noisily and with difficulty
• (of a ship) roll or pitch heavily
• (of a woman in childbirth) be in labour
NOUN:
• work, especially physical work
• workers, especially manual workers, considered collectively
• workers considered as a social class or political force
• the Labour Party
• the process of childbirth from the start of uterine contractions to delivery
• a group of moles
• a government department concerned with a nation's workforce
ADJECTIVE:
• uttered or done with difficulty
• lacking natural ease
• requiring or showing effort
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to labor

Words related to LABOURED

labored10 laboredly15 labour8 labouredly16 labouredness15 labourednesses17 labouring12 labours9

Words that contain LABOURED

belaboured15 labouredly16 unlaboured13 mislaboured16 labouredness15 overlaboured18 labourednesses17

How to use LABOURED in a sentence

• He had an immense capacity for work, and boasted that for twelve years he laboured sixteen hours a day.
• Then, with an effort that seemed curiously laboured, he slowly sat up.
• You have laboured and are gathering in the harvest.
• It laboured, and was delight, And rains fell, and shone Suns of the summer days, And dews washed the bud, And thanksgiving and praise Was the rose in our blood.
• It was surprising how little the people really knew of the oppression under which they laboured, until this stranger came amongst them to enlighten their understandings.
• The signature of the bridegroom was in a stiff straight hand, all the letters formed with unusual precision, as if the name had been written in a slow laboured way.
• I shall just mention some of those who are said to have laboured thus.
• For eight weeks Mackay laboured there, hard on the edge of the lake, living on the beach in a tent made of spars and sails.
• I longed to have torn off the folds of cloth and satisfied the awful doubts under which I laboured.
• He had laboured for peace both in field and council, and that very evening he had striven to guide the ruler of England.
• That kingdom laboured under a dreadful famine, occasioned partly from unfavourable seasons, and partly from the war, which had not left hands sufficient to cultivate the ground.
• With spite in his eyes he laboured blow on blow, he tried one form of attack after another, he found me equal, if barely equal, to all.
• They laboured under a scarcity of provisions on account of the excessive rains.
• Whether it was to continue to do so would depend upon the manner in which the canevas over which he had laboured to the glory of Binet was interpreted by the company.
• Bunyan expressed zeal with some weariness, and laboured with his congregation to prevent their being imposed on in this kind.
• He had laboured under great disadvantages in walking, having cut his feet in very gallantly swimming out to save one of the boats during a hurricane in Sharks Bay.
• France has laboured not for herself alone, but has aroused world-wide hopes, and is herself the representative of all human good-will.
• We crossed the western branch of the Delaware, having laboured hard over the mountains called the Blue Ridge, and pitched our tent near the banks of the river.
• For seven years he laboured to show medical and scientific men that statistics proved beyond doubt the futility of this measure to prevent disease.
• By every means he laboured earnestly to secure an equal opportunity of leading a useful and happy life for all men and women.
• Their whole bodies swung with an awkward and laboured motion.

Similar words containing LABOUR without suffix ed

labour8 labours9 belabour12 labourer10 belabours13 labourers11 labouring12 labourism13 labourist11 labourite11 mislabour13 nonlabour11 prolabour13 belaboured15 labouredly16 labourisms14 labourists12 labourites12 laboursome14 mislabours14 overlabour15 unlaboured13 belabouring16 labouringly17 mislaboured16 overlabours16 unlabouring14 labouredness15 laboursaving18 mislabouring17 overlaboured18 overlabouring19 labourednesses17

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