labor
/ˈleɪ.bɚ/ verb C2- To toil, to work.
- To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc). · I think we've all got the idea. There's no need to labour the point.
- To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
- To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
- To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
He/she/it labors · Past labored · Past participle labored · -ing form laboring
Verb forms
- Base form
- labor
- He/she/it
- labors
- Past
- labored
- Past participle
- labored
- -ing form
- laboring
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My labor is all in vain, for I find that the corridor looks into a courtyard filled with soldiers.”
Whole days have I passed in these Titanic efforts, considering my labor well repaid if, by night-time I had contrived to carry away a square inch of this hard-bound cement, changed by ages into a substance unyielding as the stones themselves; then to conceal the mass of earth and rubbish I dug up, I was compelled to break through a staircase, and throw the fruits of my labor into the hollow part of it; but the well is now so completely choked up, that I scarcely think it would be possible to add another handful of dust without leading to discovery.
They found no treasure, but the vines repaid their labor by an extraordinary and superabundant crop.
## The Mountain in Labor
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