10. belabor, dwell on, Inf beat into the ground, overdo; elaborate, develop, expound on, expand on.
11. burden, load or load down, overload, overburden; tire, fatigue, fag, weary, exhaust, SI. do in, wear out, U.S. Inf. tucker out, take all one's strength, SI. zap. laboratory, n. lab, proving or testing ground; language lab, photography lab, Inf. photo lab, darkroom; studio, atelier, workshop, workroom, practice room, study. labored, adj. 1. heavy, difficult, strained, forced, laborious.
2. elaborate, involved, intricate, complicated, complex; excessive, overdone, overworked, overwrought, ornate; formal, affected, stiff, unnatural, artificial. laborer, n. worker, hand, workman, toiler, moiler, drudge, unskilled laborer, manual laborer, blue-collar worker, Inf hardhat, (in the Southern U.S.) Disparaging. redneck; employee, help, hired hand, hireling, servant; working man or woman, wage earner, skilled laborer, white-collar worker, professional. laborious, adj. 1. toilsome, toilful, difficult, uphill, tough, hard; heavy, burdensome, hefty, weighty; arduous, strenuous, straining, exertive, vigorous; tiring, tiresome, fatiguing, wearying, wearisome, tedious, weariful, wearing.
2. careful, painstaking, precise, exact, detailed, particular, scrupulous, thorough; hard-working, industrious, diligent, operose, earnest, zealous, energetic; unflagging, unfailing, untiring, tireless, indefatigable; persistent, persevering, pertinacious, dogged, tenacious, unrelenting, relentless; assiduous, sedulous, constant, unremitting, steady; unswerving, undevi-ating, steadfast, plodding, Inf. plugging.
3. labored, heavy, difficult, strained, forced.
laboriously, adv. 1. toilsomely, toilfully, by the sweat of one's brow; with difficulty, toughly, heavily, burdensomely, heftily; arduously, vigorously, strain-ingly; we^ringly, wearisomely, tediously, wearifully.
2. carefully, painstakingly, precisely, exactly, particularly, in detail, scrupulously, thoroughly; industriously, diligently, operosely, earnestly, zealously, energetically; unflaggingly, unfailingly, untiringly, tirelessly, indefatigably; persistently, ploddingly, perseveringly, unswervingly, undeviatingly, steadfastly; pertinaciously, doggedly, tenaciously, unrelentingly, relentlessly; assiduously, sedulously, constantly, unremittingly, steadily. labyrinth, n. 1. maze, garden maze, winding path, winding course, circuitous course, webwork, complicated arrangement; convolution, circumvolution, winding, windings and turnings, meander, meanderings and turnings; Anat. inner ear.