How to pronounce labor in English
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"Physical toil or bodily exertion especially when fatiguing irksome or unavoidable in distinction from sportive exercise; hard muscular effort directed to some useful end as agriculture manufactures and like; servile toil; exertion; work."
"Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as the labor of compiling a history."
"That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort."
"Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth."
"Any pang or distress."
"The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging."
"A measure of land in Mexico and Texas equivalent to an area of 177/ acres."
"To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil."
"To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains."
"To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard wearisome; to move slowly as against opposition or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under and formerly with of."
"To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth."
"To pitch or roll heavily as a ship in a turbulent sea."
"To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil."
"To form or fabricate with toil exertion or care."
"To prosecute or perfect with effort; to urge stre/uously; as to labor a point or argument."
"To belabor; to beat."