Labouring is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LABOURING 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:
• doing arduous or unpleasant work
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to labor

Words related to LABOURING

labour8 laboured11 labours9

Words that contain LABOURING

belabouring16 labouringly17 unlabouring14 mislabouring17 overlabouring19

How to use LABOURING in a sentence

• Grief, deeper than mine, spoke in those labouring breaths.
• To gain this they have stolen hours from the pressure of affairs, and disregarded the allurements of luxurious ease, labouring steadfastly, hoping eagerly.
• If the duty of promoting honesty amongst the labouring classes did not exist, that of increasing happiness and piety amongst them would not be the less imperative.
• The municipal towns, the colonies, and all Italy are labouring for the same end.
• The labouring class, however, still maintain the old characteristics.
• Too much cannot be done in this way to brighten the life of the village during the cold, dark days of December and January, for the labouring man hates reading above all things.
• Time was when the labouring man was never happy unless he changed his abode from year to year.
• The Rector delivered a sermon or rather a string of advices and opinions to the labouring population, the most intolerant I have heard for a long time.
• The discontent of the labouring mass of the community is deep and increasing.
• A shepherd often takes his ease when other men are busily labouring.
• MODERN CLERGY The altered tone of the labouring population has caused the position of the landlord, especially if resident, to be one of considerable difficulty.
• Wesley lately made an effort in the West-Indies, and some of their ministers are now labouring amongst the Caribbs and Negroes, and I have seen pleasing accounts of their success.
• A certain section of Anglicans, in these modern times, are labouring hard to persuade themselves and others that they can trace their Church back to the time of St.
• They think, that they are doing great things, when they get in company with the whites, to ridicule and make sport of those who are labouring for their good.
• The father was brought up with the necessity of labouring, or the alternative of wanting food to eat.
• The practical nature of the scheme which Esperantists are labouring to induce the world to adopt is thus sufficiently clearly defined.
• She is found labouring among the poor and the sick and the children of the poor, or she goes abroad to foreign mission work.
• Ramsay MacDonald is for the working class, but, though born of labouring people, and educated in a Scotch board school, has long ceased to be of them.
• And all along the long ridges of wheat plants drove the rain-laden blast, and they bent down before it and rose up again, like the waves of a labouring sea.
• There are still many believers in the prophecies of Mother Shipton, but none believe more implicitly in her sayings than the labouring classes of Somerset.
• O harsh, O heavy air, Difficult endurance, pain of common things! The slow sun east to westward swings, The flat-faced moon climbs labouring with a senseless stare.
• Howard led him along the end gallery until they were opposite this mighty labouring figure.
• At this period, it was true, the labouring convict was menaced with the probability of suffering greater want than had ever been before experienced in the settlement.
• At first the labouring vessel seemed to hold its own, fighting desperately to remain afloat, a mere shadow above the surface.
• Even with this diminished scale of wages, the situation of the convicts would be far preferable to that of the labouring class in this country.
• On the other hand, practically, the condition of the labouring class was, generally speaking, a hard and sad one.
• Slaves were few, and there was ample employment for the labouring classes.
• Listen to one labouring with all the magic of the spell.
• It was formed by the thoughts, and hands, and powers of labouring citizens and warrior kings.
• Jesus Christ chose to be born of poor and humble parents, in a land remote from the centre of political or intellectual influence, and in the circle of labouring men.
• The people of the United States know nothing of the real condition of the labouring classes of England.
• Several of them were beggars, who, from having no lodging, were necessarily found in the street, and others honest labouring women.

Similar words containing LABOUR without suffix ing

labour8 labours9 belabour12 laboured11 labourer10 belabours13 labourers11 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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