labouredadjective
UK US labored uk/ˈleɪ.bəd/us/ˈleɪ.bɚd/needing a lot of effort, often because someone is tired:
Her breathing was heavy and laboured.
a laboured joke
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Complicated and difficult to do
- advanced
- ambitious
- another
- arduous
- as much as you can do idiom
- fiddly
- fiendish
- fierce
- formidable
- get blood out of/from a stone idiom
- murky
- picnic
- problematic
- punishing
- rigorous
- schlep
- uphill
- vexed
- wearing
- wearying
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