labouring
adjective
[ ˈleɪb(ə)rɪŋ ]
• working at an unskilled manual occupation.
• "the labouring classes"
• working or moving with difficulty.
• "his labouring heart calmed"
• (of a woman) in labour; in the process of giving birth.
• "labouring women can use a flannel or a spray of water to cool themselves down"
labour
verb
• work hard; make great effort.
• "they laboured from dawn to dusk"
Similar:
work (hard),
toil,
slave (away),
grub away,
plod away,
grind away,
sweat away,
struggle,
strive,
exert oneself,
overwork,
work one's fingers to the bone,
work like a Trojan/dog/slave,
slog away,
kill oneself,
plug away,
put one's back into something,
peg away,
graft,
drudge,
travail,
moil,
• have difficulty in doing something despite working hard.
• "United laboured against confident opponents"
Similar:
strive,
struggle,
endeavour,
work,
try hard,
make every effort,
do one's best,
do one's utmost,
do all one can,
give (it/something) one's all,
go all out,
fight,
push,
be at pains,
put oneself out,
apply oneself,
exert oneself,
bend/fall/lean over backwards,
give it one's best shot,
pull out all the stops,
• (of a woman in childbirth) be in labour.
• "she laboured very well and comfortably because she was relaxed"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French labour (noun), labourer (verb), both from Latin labor ‘toil, trouble’.
