- painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.
- pain, anguish or suffering resulting from mental or physical hardship.
- the pain of childbirth.
- to suffer the pangs of childbirth; be in labor.
- to toil or exert oneself.
- painful or excessive labour or exertion
- the pangs of childbirth; labour
- to suffer or labour painfully, esp in childbirth
