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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



... dropped to his hands and knees as soon as he had reached the bushes; and the foresters might beat and belabor Mother Sherwood in vain, for she would ...
— Robin Hood • Paul Creswick

... whatever may have been the gallant things he was saying, they were soon ended in the bustle consequent upon the sudden rushing in of the brave Captain McTurk, followed by the enraged Meg Dods, with no less a weapon in her hand than a broom-stick, with which she was striving to belabor the shoulders ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 • Various

... retained in some of the moralities side by side with the abstract vice, who became the clown or fool of Shaksperian comedy. The "formal Vice, Iniquity," as Shakspere calls him, had it for his business to belabor the roaring Devil with his ...
— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers

... 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

... slow, lumbering gait. It walked directly toward the gryfs who moved aside, as though afraid. Tarzan watched intently. The Tor-o-don was now quite close to one of the triceratops. It swung its head and snapped at him viciously. Instantly the Tor-o-don sprang in and commenced to belabor the huge beast across the face with his stick. To the ape-man's amazement the gryf, that might have annihilated the comparatively puny Tor-o-don instantly in any of a dozen ways, ...
— Tarzan the Terrible • Edgar Rice Burroughs



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



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