Belabor

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     2. To beat soundly; to cudgel.
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              Ajax belabors there a harmless ox.    --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "belabor":
     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