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English

Alternative spellings

belabour (UK)

Etymology

Pronunciation

Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪbə(r)|-eɪbə(r)

Verb

To beat someone.
To attack someone verbally.
To discuss something repeatedly; to harp on.
:Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. - Inaugural speech 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Belabor \Be*la"bor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belabored; p. pr. &
vb. n. Belaboring.]
1. To ply diligently; to work carefully upon. "If the earth
is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn." --Barrow.
[1913 Webster]

2. To beat soundly; to cudgel.
[1913 Webster]

Ajax belabors there a harmless ox. --Dryden.
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WordNet belabor
v 1: to work at or to absurd length; "belabor the obvious" [syn:
belabour]
2: attack verbally with harsh criticism; "She was belabored by
her fellow students" [syn: belabour]
3: beat soundly [syn: belabour]

Moby Dictionary
accent , accentuate , always trot out , baste , bastinado , batter ,
beat , belt , birch , buffet , cane , club , cowhide , cudgel , cut , drub ,
dwell on , dwell upon , emphasize , flagellate , flail , flog ,
fustigate , give a whipping , give emphasis to , give the stick ,
hammer away at , harp on , highlight , horsewhip , insist upon ,
italicize , knout , labor , lace , lambaste , lash , lay on ,
overaccentuate , overemphasize , overstress , pelt , pistol-whip ,
place emphasis on , point up , pommel , pound , pummel , punctuate ,
rawhide , rub in , scourge , smite , spank , spotlight , star , strap ,
stress , stripe , swinge , switch , thrash , thresh over , thump ,
trounce , truncheon , underline , underscore , wallop , whale , whip ,
whop