laboring Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb strive and make an effort to reach a goal
    push; drive; labor; labour; tug.
    • She tugged for years to make a decent living
    • We have to push a little to make the deadline!
    • She is driving away at her doctoral thesis
  2. verb work hard
    moil; travail; dig; grind; labour; drudge; toil; labor; fag.
    • She was digging away at her math homework
    • Lexicographers drudge all day long
  3. verb undergo the efforts of childbirth
    labour; labor.
  4. adjective satellite doing arduous or unpleasant work
    labouring; toiling; drudging.
    • drudging peasants
    • the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton
    • toiling coal miners in the black deeps

WordNet

La"bor*ing adjective
Definitions
  1. That labors; performing labor; esp., performing coarse, heavy work, not requiring skill also, set apart for labor; as, laboring days.
    The sleep of a laboring man is sweet. eccl. v. 12.
  2. Suffering pain or grief. Pope.

Webster 1913