- [intransitive] to try very hard to do something difficult
- labor (away) He was in his study laboring away over some old papers.
- labor to do something They labored for years to clear their son's name.
- [intransitive] to do hard physical work
- We labored all day in the fields.
- (old-fashioned) the laboring classes (= the working class)
- [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) to move with difficulty and effort synonym struggle (2)
- The horses labored up the steep slope.
- With the engine laboring, the car struggled up the hill.
struggle
work hard
move with difficulty
Idioms
See labor in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarylabor the point
- to continue to repeat or explain something that has already been said and understood
- I understand what you're saying—there's no need to labor the point.
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