Labored meaning : To toil, to work. To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc). To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden. To suffer the pangs of childbirth. To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea. Expressive of strenuous effort. Of writing or speech or similar, stilted or not natural due to too much effort being used in the production.