Stuart's Daily Word Spot: Laboured

Laboured: adjective - used for work; hard worked; cultivated,tilled, ploughed; produced or accomplished using labour; performed with greateffort; tediously elaborated or lacking spontaneity, heavy.
'Carol's rendition of thepoem was laboured and dull, lacking the emotional element that the words shouldhave conveyed.'
'Barry's breathing waslaboured, his eyes closing from the simple effort of drawing in the air, and itwasn't long before the final, ragged breath signalled his death.'
Pic: A farm track in East Yorkshire.