Definition of "belabored" [belabored]

• Simple past tense and past participle of belabor. (verb)

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• "A woman whose mother was a Christian Scientist recalls the belabored feeding her family undertook to maintain their health: fasts, cleanses, fermentation and raw food, hydrogen peroxide from the bottle, apple-cider vinegar, barley grass."
• "I see it as a good example of meaningless, puffed-up verbiage intended to convey the impression of eloquence or significance; but perhaps it is also an example of a kind of belabored delicacy: it's as if the author is saying "there is a group which certain people of interest belong to, but I will preserve them by claiming an indeterminate quantity for censure"."
• "The English learned from the French, however, building square stockades with corner bastions and crude barracks and storehouses, the men sleeping in pairs or trios head-to-foot, belabored by bedbugs, fleas, flies, ticks, and lice.2"