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Definition of labored : 1. Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
2. of Labor

Synonyms:

leaden, overweight, chesty, uninteresting, heavily, awkward, great, toilsome, enceinte, wakeless, agonistic, boring, grueling, lowering, dense, heavy-handed, bronchial, fleshy, expectant, laboured, elephantine, good, strained, trivial, deeply, sonorous, grievous, unexciting, dull, lumbering, punishing, weighed down, weighty, indrawn, sullen, breathless, dreary, profound, contrived, backbreaking, humdrum, ponderous, tedious, gravid, deep, laborious, big, impenetrable, intemperate, threatening, clayey, difficult, cloggy, with child, arduous, choke, effortful, mind-numbing, gruelling, constrained, operose, large, forced, hard, uninspired, heavy, pulmonary, true, grave, sound

done, functioned, appeared, performed, perpetrated, moved, did, exercised, transacted, behaved, endeavored, officiated, reacted, conducted, operated, worked, comported, acted, executed

toiled

employed, discharged, exerted, expended, wielded, applied

Usage examples:

• Children who labored at the plough and cart or other agriculture shall continue in that labor and may not go into a craft. - "Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed.", S. A. Reilly.
• Shelby swayed unsteadily with his burden, his eyes on the perfect shoulders whose curves played and quivered with the labored breath. - "The Henchman", Mark Lee Luther.
• But, if you have labored and let the enjoyment be taken from you, then-" it serves you right." - "The Ego and His Own", Max Stirner.