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labornoun a dull, unpleasant, or difficult piece of workone of the labors of Hercules in classical mythology was to clean out the stables of King Augeas bear, beast, chore, headache, job, killer drudgery, grind, heavy lifting, lucubrationeffort, strain, sweatburden, load, weightbother, nuisance, trouble breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, kid stuff, setup, snap the active use of energy in producing a resulta superhuman amount of labor must have gone into designing and building the pyramids of Egypt effort, elbow grease, exertion, expenditure, pains, sweat, trouble, while, work drudgery, grind, slog, strain, toil, travaildint, energyforce, might, muscle, power, puissanceattempt, endeavor, essay, fling, go, pass, shot, stab, trial, try, whack adroitness, ease, facility, fluency, smoothnessdormancy, idleness, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, languor, laziness, quiescence very hard or unpleasant worka political dissident forced to do six months of hard labor in the salt mines as punishment donkeywork, drudge, drudgery, fatigue, grind, moil, slavery, sweat, toil, travail spadeworkeffort, exertion, pains, struggle, troublechore, duty, job, obligation, responsibilityroutine, tedium, treadmill fun, play decompression, ease, leisure, relaxation, repose, restamusement, dalliance, diversion, entertainment, recreation, sportdormancy, idleness, inactivity, inertia, inertnessdallying, goldbricking, loafing, lolling, lounging the act or process of giving birth to childrenthe mother's labor lasted for six hours accouchement, childbearing, childbirth, delivery, parturition, travail birth pang, contraction, painspregnancyabortion, miscarriagecesarean section(or caesarean section), natural childbirthchildbed, confinement, lying-in something produced by physical or intellectual efforta small, personal film that was clearly a labor of love for the director and actors affair, fruit, handiwork, output, produce, product, production, thing, work, yield article, commodity, entry, objectgoods, line, merchandise, wareshandcraft, handicraftaftereffect, aftermath, conclusion, consequence, corollary, development, effect, issue, outcome, result, resultant, sequel, sequence, upshotby-product, derivative, offshoot, offspring, outgrowth, residual, side effect(also side reaction), spin-off to devote serious and sustained effortthe young lawyer labored most of the weekend over the difficult legal brief bang away, beaver (away), dig (away), drudge, endeavor, fag, grub, hump, hustle, moil, peg (away), plod, plow, plug, slave, slog, strain, strive, struggle, sweat, toil, travail, tug, work apply (oneself), buckle (down), dig in, hammer (away), knuckle down, pitch inattack, driveessay, tryexercise, exert, overexert, overworkeke out, grind (out), put out, scrabble, scratchtrudge, wade sweat blood break, ease (up), let up, slackenbum, chill, dally, dillydally, footle, goldbrick, goof (off), hack (around), hang (around or out), idle, laze, loaf, lounge, shirk, slack (off), veg outbask, loll, relax, repose, rest, unwinddabble, doodle, fool around, fribble, goof (around), hang, hang about(British), mess around, monkey (around), play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle n.work, labor, travail, toil, drudgery, grind mean activity involving effort or exertion.work may imply activity of body, of mind, of a machine, or of a natural force.too tired to do any work labor applies to physical or intellectual work involving great and often strenuous exertion.farmers demanding fair compensation for their labor travail is bookish for labor involving pain or suffering.years of travail were lost when the house burned toil implies prolonged and fatiguing labor.his lot would be years of back-breaking toil drudgery suggests dull and irksome labor.an editorial job with a good deal of drudgery grind implies labor exhausting to mind or body.the grind of the assembly line in the 14th century |