laboured
Because it is a word with a single syllable, laboured is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions oflaboured
- To toil, to work.
- To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
Example: "I think we've all got the idea. There's no need to labour the point."
- 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.
Example: "At the end of the marathon, her laboured breathing told us she was exhausted."
- Of writing or speech or similar, stilted or not natural due to too much effort being used in the production.
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