Synonyms of the word

labour

• n. Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
• n. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
• n. (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour…
• n. (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
• n. The act of a mother giving birth.
• n. The time period during which a mother gives birth.
• n. (nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
• n. An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.
• v. (intransitive) To toil, to work.
• v. (transitive) To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
• v. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially…
• v. To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
• v. (nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

birth

• n. (uncountable) The process of childbearing; the beginning of life.
• n. (countable) An instance of childbirth.
• n. (countable) A beginning or start; a point of origin.
• n. (uncountable) The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.
• n. That which is born.
• n. Misspelling of berth.
• adj. A familial relationship established by childbirth.
• v. (dated or regional) To bear or give birth to (a child).
• v. (figuratively) To produce, give rise to.

birthing

• n. (sometimes attributive) The act of giving birth.
• n. (nautical) Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.

childbed

• n. (uncountable) The final stage of pregnancy; confinement.
• n. (countable) The bed in which a baby is born.

class

• n. (countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
• n. (countable) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three…
• n. (uncountable) The division of society into classes.
• n. (uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
• n. (countable and uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
• n. A series of classes covering a single subject.
• n. (countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A…
• n. (countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
• n. (taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon…
• n. Best of its kind.
• n. (mathematics) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
• n. (military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those…
• n. (object-oriented programming) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state),…
• n. One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
• v. (transitive) To assign to a class; to classify.
• v. (intransitive) To be grouped or classed.
• v. (transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
• adj. (Ireland, Britain, slang) great; fabulous.

confinement

• n. the act of confining or the state of being confined.
• n. lying-in, time of giving birth.

dig

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole…
• v. (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
• v. (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
• v. (figuratively) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
• v. To thrust; to poke.
• v. (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball.
• n. An archeological investigation.
• n. (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
• n. A thrust; a poke.
• n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
• n. (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
• v. (slang) To understand or show interest in.
• v. (slang) To appreciate, or like.

drive

• n. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
• n. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
• n. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc.
• n. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
• n. A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent…
• n. A trip made in a motor vehicle.
• n. A driveway.
• n. A type of public roadway.
• n. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
• n. (psychology) Desire or interest.
• n. (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk,…
• n. (computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with…
• n. (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
• n. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and…
• n. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
• n. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs,…
• n. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
• n. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
• n. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
• v. (transitive) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
• v. (transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.
• v. (transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
• v. (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
• v. (transitive) To compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive) To cause to become.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
• v. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
• v. (transitive) To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) To move forcefully.
• v. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
• v. (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
• v. (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
• v. (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
• v. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
• v. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball…
• v. (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
• v. To be the dominant party where two people are engaged in a sex act.

drudge

• n. A person who works in a low servile job.
• n. (pejorative) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.
• v. to labour in (or as in) a low servile job.

experience

• n. (countable, uncountable) Event(s) of which one is cognizant.
• n. (countable) An activity which one has performed.
• n. (countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge,…
• n. (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
• v. (transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions…

fag

• n. (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, colloquial, dated in US and Canada) A cigarette.
• n. (Britain, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) A chore; an arduous and tiresome task.
• n. (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) In many British boarding schools, a younger student acting as…
• v. (transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To droop; to tire.
• v. (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students…
• v. (Britain, archaic) To work hard, especially on menial chores.
• n. (vulgar, offensive) A homosexual man.
• n. (US, vulgar, offensive) An annoying person.

fight

• v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
• v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
• v. (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
• v. (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
• v. (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
• n. An occasion of fighting.
• n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
• n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
• n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
• n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
• n. The will or ability to fight.
• n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.

get

• v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To receive.
• v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
• v. (copulative) To become.
• v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
• v. (transitive) To cause to do.
• v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
• v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
• v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
• v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
• v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
• v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
• v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
• v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
• v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
• v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
• v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
• v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
• v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
• v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
• v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
• v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
• v. (transitive) To getter.
• v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
• v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
• v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
• v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
• v. (euphemistic) To kill.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
• n. Offspring.
• n. Lineage.
• n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
• n. Something gained.
• n. (Britain, regional) A git.
• n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

grind

• v. To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
• v. To shape with the force of friction.
• v. (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
• v. To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
• v. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
• v. (sports) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
• v. To oppress, hold down or weaken.
• v. (slang) To rotate the hips erotically.
• v. (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed…
• v. (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
• v. To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
• v. To instill through repetitive teaching.
• v. (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
• v. (slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
• n. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
• n. Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
• n. A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
• n. A tedious task.
• n. A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
• n. (archaic, slang) One who studies hard; a swot.
• n. Grindcore (subgenre of heavy metal).
• n. A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.

have

• v. (transitive) To possess, own, hold.
• v. (transitive) To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
• v. (transitive) To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) must.
• v. (transitive) To give birth to.
• v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is…
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
• v. Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion,…
• v. (Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
• v. (Ireland) To be able to speak a language.
• v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
• v. To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative.
• v. To trick, to deceive.
• v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow.
• v. (transitive) To host someone.

labor

• n. American standard spelling of labour.
• v. American standard spelling of labour.

lying-in

• n. The final stages of pregnancy; accouchement.
• adj. of, or relating to childbirth.

moil

• v. To toil, to work hard.
• v. To churn continually.
• v. (Britain, transitive) To defile or dirty.
• n. Hard work.
• n. Confusion, turmoil.
• n. A spot; a defilement.
• n. (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching…
• n. (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object…
• n. (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.

parturiency

• n. parturition.

parturition

• n. The act of giving birth; childbirth.

party

• n. (law) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
• n. A person.
• n. (now rare in general sense) A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
• n. A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues…
• n. (military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
• n. A social gathering.
• n. (obsolete) A part or division.
• v. (intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
• v. (intransitive, slang, euphemistic) To take recreational drugs.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
• v. (online gaming, intransitive) To form a party (with).
• adj. (obsolete, except in compounds) Divided; in part.
• adj. (heraldry) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.
• adv. (obsolete) Partly.

proletariat

• n. The working class or lower class.
• n. The wage earners collectively, excluding salaried workers.
• n. (historical) In ancient Rome, the lowest class of citizens, who had no property; "regarded as contributing…

push

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or…
• v. (transitive) To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
• v. (transitive) To press or urge forward; to drive.
• v. (transitive) To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
• v. (informal, transitive) To approach; to come close to.
• v. (intransitive) To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
• v. (intransitive) To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
• v. To make a higher bid at an auction.
• v. (poker) To make an all-in bet.
• v. (chess, transitive) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
• v. (computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
• v. (computing) To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
• v. (obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
• v. To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
• v. (snooker) To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at…
• n. A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
• n. An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
• n. A great effort (to do something).
• n. An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
• n. (military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company…
• n. A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score.
• n. (computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request,…
• n. (dated) A crowd or throng or people.
• n. (snooker) A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same…
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.

receive

• v. To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.
• v. To take possession of.
• v. To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence,…
• v. To incur (an injury).
• v. To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
• v. (telecommunications) To detect a signal from a transmitter.
• v. (sports) To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To accept into the mind; to understand.
• n. (telecommunications) An operation in which data is received.

struggle

• n. Strife, contention, great effort.
• v. To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
• v. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

toil

• n. labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
• n. trouble, strife.
• n. A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; usually in the plural.
• v. (intransitive) To labour; work.
• v. (intransitive) To struggle.
• v. (transitive) To work (something); often with out.
• v. (transitive) To weary through excessive labour.

travail

• n. (archaic) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
• n. Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
• n. (obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
• n. (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.
• n. Obsolete form of travel.
• n. Alternative form of travois (“a kind of sled”).
• v. To toil.
• v. To go through the labor of childbirth.

tug

• v. (transitive) to pull or drag with great effort.
• v. (transitive) to pull hard repeatedly.
• v. (transitive) to tow by tugboat.
• n. a sudden powerful pull.
• n. (nautical) a tugboat.
• n. (obsolete) A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
• n. A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
• n. (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
• n. (slang) An act of masturbation.

undergo

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To go or move under or beneath.
• v. (transitive) To experience; to pass through a phase.
• v. (transitive) To suffer or endure; bear with.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.