What is the meaning of labored?

Strive and make an effort to reach a goal.
- usage: "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"
- synonyms: tug, labor, labour, push, drive
Work hard.
- usage: "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
- synonyms: labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
Undergo the efforts of childbirth.
- synonyms: labor, labour

Lacking natural ease.
- usage: "a labored style of debating"
- synonyms: laboured, strained
Requiring or showing effort.
- usage: "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"
- synonyms: heavy, laboured

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