BELABOURED Synonyms

• lacking natural ease

• requiring or showing effort

• lacking natural ease

• showing signs of mental and emotional tension

• lacking spontaneity; not natural

• struggling for effect

• To labour in (or as in) a low servile job.

• To exert oneself.

• To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously.

• To attempt (something).

• To work with purpose.

• put to use

• have and exercise

• make a great effort at a mental or physical task

• be persistent, refuse to stop

• the act of walking with a slow heavy gait

• walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud

• a person who is owned by someone

• someone who works as hard as a slave

• someone entirely dominated by some influence or person

• work very hard, like a slave

• an energetic attempt to achieve something

• an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)

• strenuous effort

• make a strenuous or labored effort

• to exert strenuous effort against opposition

• climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

• be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight

• salty fluid secreted by sweat glands

• agitation resulting from active worry

• condensation of moisture on a cold surface

• use of physical or mental energy; hard work

• excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin

• productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

• work hard

• to work at or to absurd length

• attack verbally with harsh criticism

• beat soundly