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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.
[1913 Webster]
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
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