Local English word record

laboring

adjective · 1 sense

doing arduous or unpleasant work

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Examples

  • drudging peasants
  • the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton
  • toiling coal miners in the black deeps

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Synonyms

drudging, labouring, toiling

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