Meaning of BELABOR
| Pronunciation: | | bi'leybur
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- [v] attack verbally with harsh criticism; "She was belabored by her fellow students"
- [v] beat soundly
- [v] to work at or to absurd length; "belabor the obvious"
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| | Synonyms: | | belabour, belabour, belabour |
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| | See Also: | | beat, beat up, criticise, criticize, pick apart, work at, work on, work over | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
2. To beat soundly; to cudgel.
Ajax belabors there a harmless ox. --Dryden.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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