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Meanings of laboured in English

Lacking natural ease.

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Requiring or showing effort.

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Examples for "heavy"
Examples for "heavy"
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China's new climate-related insurance services, however, often depend on heavy government subsidies.
Reuters
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Reporting remains subject to heavy legal constraint, thus key information remains obscured.
The Irish Times
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Twenty years of freedom have seen heavy investment is Soweto's public transport.
The South African
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And Western Australia has particularly heavy penalties under its Public Health Act.
News.com.au
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There is also new evidence that heavy precipitation has increased in Europe.
The Guardian
Usage of laboured in English
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In commodity markets, oil prices laboured with record production by Saudi Arabia.
Reuters
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Because I preached and laboured in the night of my unconverted state.
From Death into Life / or, Twenty Years of my Ministry
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His breathing is laboured; his chest can barely contain his ribs' stretch.
The Irish Times
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In the meadow, Jeanne still laboured under the heroic delusion of victory.
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
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But I think we've laboured under that misapprehension for too long now.
Radio NZ
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Salute Persis, the dearly beloved, who hath much laboured in the Lord.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, New Testament
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We lived in peace; we laboured, we did wrong to no man.
Benita, an African romance
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Iqbal's heart rate had risen dangerously high, and his breathing was laboured.
Reach for Infinity
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For this we know: they laboured only in a state of grace.
The Cathedral
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You're tiny Trinidad against mighty England.' It was a laboured England performance.
The Guardian
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Again I laboured until the shadows grew thick around the gloomy walls.
Wilfrid Cumbermede
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Brantome praises her excellent beauty in a long string of laboured hyperboles.
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Volume 1
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But in whatever capacity he laboured he was true to his reputation.
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
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His breath came in laboured gasps as one mad thought succeeded another.
The Root of Evil
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Mabyn suggested in a tone that he laboured to make sound off-hand.
Two on the Trail: A Story of the Far Northwest
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At the latter laboured quite a company of girls and some men.
Sister Carrie: A Novel
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