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Belabor   /bɪlˈeɪbər/   Listen
Belabor

verb
(past & past part. belabored; pres. part. belaboring)
1.
To work at or to absurd length.  Synonym: belabour.
2.
Attack verbally with harsh criticism.  Synonym: belabour.
3.
Beat soundly.  Synonym: belabour.






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"Belabor" Quotes from Famous Books



... made no move to obey, but continued to hold his paunch, while tears of pain stood in his eyes, and his face assumed a livid hue. Roth strode up to him and began to belabor him with both fists, showering hard blows on neck and head. Then, grasping him by the throat, Roth turned the man's head around and administered such a well-aimed blow on his nose as to draw blood. Under this punishment the ungainly soldier ...
— A Little Garrison - A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day • Fritz von der Kyrburg

... they succeed in taming a tiger, an elephant or such like animals;" therefore what rank must belong to woman, "who spends years in training that fiercer animal, MAN?" She instances a journeyman tailor she once saw belabor his wife with a neck of mutton, "to make her know, as he said, her sovereign lord and master. And this is perhaps as strong an argument as their sex is able to produce, though conveyed, in a greasy light.... To stoop to regard for the strutting things is not enough; to humor them more than ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15, - No. 90, June, 1875 • Various



Words linked to "Belabor" :   knock, criticise, work over, beat, work at, belabour, criticize, beat up, work on, pick apart



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