verb
- working hard or laboring under a misunderstanding or false assumption; toiling in vain or toward a wrong goal
Usage: present participle of mislabor; archaic or literary
Examples
- He was mislaboring under the false belief that the project had already been completed.
- The team spent weeks mislaboring on a solution to a problem that had already been solved.
- She realized she had been mislaboring all along when the true facts came to light.
- They were mislaboring toward an impossible goal without understanding the real constraints.