labour
/ˈleɪ.bɚ/ verbe C2En français : travailler
- 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 labours · Prétérit laboured · Participe passé laboured · Forme en -ing labouring
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- labour
- He/she/it
- labours
- Prétérit
- laboured
- Participe passé
- laboured
- Forme en -ing
- labouring
Dans la bibliothèque
Most earnestly did she labour to prove the probability of error, and seek to clear one, without involving the other.
Its laboured breathing and glazing eye showed that it was not far from its end.
The dog continued to lie stretched upon the cushion, breathing in a laboured way, but apparently neither the better nor the worse for its draught.
“Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.”
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