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heightened
adj. heavy
  • abstruse
  • complex
  • complicated
  • concentrated
  • confused
  • fierce
  • formidable
  • grave
  • grievous
  • hard
  • harsh
  • intense
  • intensive
  • intolerable
  • knotty
  • labored
  • laborious
  • onerous
  • oppressive
  • profound
  • recondite
  • rough
  • serious
  • solemn
  • stormy
  • strenuous
  • te

act
verb. do something
  • accomplish
  • achieve
  • begin
  • carry on
  • carry out
  • consummate
  • cook
  • create
  • develop
  • do
  • do a number
  • do one's thing
  • enforce
  • execute
  • function
  • get in there
  • go about
  • go for broke
  • go for it
  • go in for
  • go that route
  • go to town
  • intrude
  • knock off
  • labor
  • make progress
  • maneuver
  • move
  • officiate
  • operate
  • percolate
  • perk
  • perpetrate
  • persevere
  • persist
  • practice
  • preside
  • pursue
  • respond
  • serve
  • take effect
  • take part
  • take steps
  • take up
  • transort
  • undertake
  • work out

agonize
verb. suffer or cause another to suffer
  • afflict
  • bleed
  • carry on
  • crucify
  • distress
  • disturb
  • eat heart out
  • excruciate
  • harrow
  • hurt
  • labor
  • lament
  • martyr
  • pain
  • rack
  • sing the blues
  • squirm
  • stew over
  • strain
  • strive
  • struggle
  • take it badly
  • torment
  • torture
  • try
  • wince
  • worry
  • writhe

cultivate
verb. develop land for growing
  • breed
  • crop
  • dress
  • farm
  • fertilize
  • garden
  • harvest
  • labor
  • manage
  • mature
  • plant
  • plow
  • prepare
  • propagate
  • raise
  • ripen
  • seed
  • tend
  • till
  • work

drudge
verb. work very hard
  • back to the salt mines
  • dig
  • grind
  • hammer
  • keep nose to grindstone
  • labor
  • muck
  • perform
  • plod
  • plow
  • plug away
  • pound
  • schlepp
  • slave
  • slog
  • sweat
  • toil
  • travail

endeavor
verb. attempt to achieve something
  • address
  • aim
  • apply
  • aspire
  • assay
  • bid for
  • buck
  • determine
  • dig
  • do one's best
  • drive at
  • essay
  • go for
  • go for broke
  • grind
  • hammer away
  • hassle
  • have a crack
  • have a shot at
  • have a swing at
  • hump
  • hustle
  • intend
  • labor
  • make a run at
  • make an effort
  • offer
  • peg away
  • plug
  • pour it on
  • purpose
  • push
  • risk
  • scratch
  • seek
  • strain
  • strive
  • struggle
  • sweat
  • take on
  • take pains
  • try
  • undertake
  • venture

essay
verb. try, attempt
  • aim
  • assay
  • endeavor
  • have a crack
  • have a go
  • have a shot
  • have at it
  • labor
  • make a run at
  • offer
  • put to the test
  • seek
  • strive
  • struggle
  • take a stab at
  • take a whack at
  • take on
  • test
  • toil
  • travail
  • try out
  • undertake
  • venture
  • work

exercise
verb. do repeatedly, especially to improve
  • break
  • break in
  • condition
  • cultivate
  • develop
  • discipline
  • drill
  • dry run
  • exert
  • fix
  • foster
  • groom
  • habituate
  • hone
  • improve
  • inure
  • labor
  • lick into shape
  • limber up
  • loosen up
  • maneuver
  • ply
  • practice
  • prepare
  • pump iron
  • put out
  • put through grind
  • put through mill
  • rehearse
  • run through
  • set
  • strain
  • teach
  • train
  • tune up
  • walk through
  • warm up
  • work
  • work out

exert
verb. make use of
  • apply
  • apply oneself
  • bring into play
  • bring to bear
  • dig
  • employ
  • endeavor
  • exercise
  • expend
  • give all one's got
  • give best shot
  • labor
  • make effort
  • peg away
  • plug
  • ply
  • pour it on
  • push
  • put forth
  • put out
  • strain
  • strive
  • struggle
  • sweat it
  • throw
  • toil
  • try hard
  • use
  • utilize
  • wield
  • work
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Word Origin & History

labor c.1300, "exertion of the body," from O.Fr. labour (Fr. labeur), from L. laborem (nom. labor) "toil, pain, exertion, fatigue, work," perhaps originally "tottering under a burden," related to labere "to totter." The verb is c.1300, from M.Fr. labourer, from L. laborare, from labor. The verb in modern Fr., Sp., Port. means "to plow;" the wider sense being taken by the equivalent of Eng. travail. Meaning "body of laborers considered as a class" (usually contrasted to capitalists) is from 1839. Sense of "physical exertions of childbirth" is 1595, from Fr. en travail "in (childbirth) suffering" ...(see travail). Labor Day first marked 1882 in New York City.

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Example Sentences for labored

But on the first two and greatest articles of his creed, how Jasper labored!

On her thwarts two figures, dipping and rising, labored with the sweeps.

He and Tom labored like Trojans to take off the wheel, and put on the other.

These damned New Yorkers had no idea of the pressure under which he labored.

At the same time he labored assiduously in other directions.

He fidgeted, hesitated, and then hurried forth a labored apology.

He sought his fellows on the parish committee and labored with them.

So I labored out of the barn and trudged through the grass to the hedge.

And during the day they labored like Trojans at their work, as though to forget it.

This was the very thing we labored against, or one of them, at least.

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