1. Doing arduous or unpleasant work
   "the bent backs of labouring slaves picking cotton"; "labouring peasants";
   - drudging, laboring [US], toiling

1. Strive and make an effort to reach a goal
   "She laboured for years to make a decent living";
   - tug, labor [US], push, drive, plow [US], sweat, plough on [Brit], plough [Brit], plow on [US]
    
2. Work hard
   "Lexicographers labour all day long";
   - labor [US], toil, fag [informal], travail [literary], grind [informal], drudge, dig [US, informal], moil [N. Amer]
    
3. Undergo the efforts of childbirth
   "She laboured for hours before the baby was born";
   - labor [US]

See also: busy

Type of: experience, fight, have, struggle, undergo, work

Encyclopedia: Labouring