Usually means: Performed with difficulty or effort.
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  1. laboured: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. laboured: Merriam-Webster
  3. laboured: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. laboured: Collins English Dictionary
  5. laboured: Vocabulary.com
  6. Laboured, laboured: Wordnik
  7. laboured: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. laboured: Wiktionary
  9. laboured: Dictionary.com
  10. laboured: Rhymezone
  11. laboured: FreeDictionary.org
  12. laboured: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. laboured: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. laboured: Legal dictionary

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  1. laboured: Encyclopedia

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  1. laboured: Medical dictionary

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adjective:  Expressive of strenuous effort.
adjective:  Of writing or speech or similar, stilted or not natural due to too much effort being used in the production.

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