Nouns (14)
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labor, labour, working class, proletariat
n. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
labor, labour, toil
n. productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
n. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
Verbs (2)
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labor, labour
v. undergo the efforts of childbirth
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Fuzzynyms (82)
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people
n. (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
tribe, federation of tribes
n. a federation (as of American Indians)
bourgeois, burgher
n. a member of the middle class
man, humanity, world, humankind, mankind, human race
n. all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women"
multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed
n. the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"
folk, folks, common people
n. people in general (often used in the plural); "they're just country folk"; "folks around here drink moonshine"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next"
populace, public, world
n. people in general considered as a whole; "he is a hero in the eyes of the public"
rabble, riffraff, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail
n. disparaging terms for the common people
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
n. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
strain, straining
n. an intense or violent exertion
job, task, chore
n. a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores"
labor, labour, toil
n. productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork
n. hard monotonous routine work
delivery, obstetrical delivery
n. the act of delivering a child
endeavor, endeavour, strive
v. attempt by employing effort; "we endeavor to make our customers happy"
push
v. sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs); "The guy hanging around the school is pushing drugs"
continue, go on, persist in, go along
v. keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions"
tolerate
v. have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen or environmental condition; "The patient does not tolerate the anti-inflammatory drugs we gave him"
prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure
v. continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures"
persevere, persist, hang in, hang on, hold on
v. be persistent, refuse to stop; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions"
insist, assert
v. assert to be true; "The letter asserts a free society"
insist, take a firm stand
v. be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge; "I must insist!"
keep, maintain, hold
v. keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"
assert, asseverate, maintain
v. state categorically
strive, reach, strain
v. to exert much effort or energy; "straining our ears to hear"
work, act
v. have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected; "The voting process doesn't work as well as people thought"; "How does your idea work in practice?"; "This method doesn't work"; "The breaks of my new car act quickly"; "The medicine works only if you take it with a lot of water"
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Antonyms (2)
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diversion, recreation
n. an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates; "scuba diving is provided as a diversion for tourists"; "for recreation he wrote poetry and solved crossword puzzles"; "drug abuse is often regarded as a form of recreation"
labour
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