Definition of labored

"labored" in the verb sense

1. tug, labor, labour, push, drive

strive and make an effort to reach a goal

"She tugged for years to make a decent living"

"We have to push a little to make the deadline!"

"She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"

2. labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil

work hard

"She was digging away at her math homework"

"Lexicographers drudge all day long"

3. labor, labour

undergo the efforts of childbirth

"labored" in the adjective sense

1. labored, laboured, strained

lacking natural ease

"a labored style of debating"

2. heavy, labored, laboured

requiring or showing effort

"heavy breathing"

"the subject made for labored reading"

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Quotations for labored

How is night's sable mantle labored over.
How richly wrought with attributes divine!
What wisdom shines! what love! this midnight pomp.
This gorgeous arch, with golden worlds inlaid!
Built with divine ambition. [ Young ]

Such labored nothings, in so strange a style, amaze the unlearned and make the learned smile. [ Pope ]

Employ your time in improving yourselves by other men's documents: so shall you come easily by what others have labored hard for. [ Socrates ]

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow. [ Saadi ]

If I were to choose the people with whom I would spend my hours of conversation, they should be certainly such as labored no further than to make themselves readily and clearly apprehended, and would have patience and curiosity to understand me. To have good sense and ability to express it are the most essential and necessary qualities in companions. When thoughts rise in us fit to utter among familiar friends, there needs but very little care in clothing them. [ Steele ]

labored in Scrabble®

The word labored is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters labored:

LABORED
(90 = 40 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

labored

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word labored

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In labored

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labored in Words With Friends™

The word labored is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters labored:

LABORED
(107 = 72 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

labored

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word labored

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In labored

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Words containing the sequence labored

Words that start with labored (3 words)

Words with labored in them (1 word)

Words that end with labored (6 words)

Word Growth involving labored

Shorter words in labored

ab abore

or ore bore abore

re ore bore abore

or ore bore bored

re ore bore bored

re red bored

ab lab labor

la lab labor

or labor

Longer words containing labored

belabored

laboredly

laboredness

nonlabored

outlabored

overlabored

unlabored