belabor

belabor
Synonyms and related words:
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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  • belabor — [bē lā′bər, bilā′bər] vt. 1. to beat severely; hit or whip 2. to attack with words; scold 3. to spend too much time and effort on; develop in too great detail [to belabor the issue] …   English World dictionary

  • 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • belabor — (v.) 1590s, to exert one s strength upon, from BE (Cf. be ) + LABOR (Cf. labor) (v.). But figurative sense of assail with words is attested somewhat earlier (1590s); and belabored is attested from mid 15c. with a sense of tilled, cultivated …   Etymology dictionary

  • belabor — (Amer.) be·la·bor || bɪ leɪbÉ™ v. criticize, ridicule; excessively elaborate on a topic; beat, hit (also belabour) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • belabor — *beat, pound, pummel, thrash, buffet, baste Analogous words: *strike, hit, smite, slug, clout, swat, punch, box, cuff, slap …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • belabor — [v] dwell on beat a dead horse*, go on about, hammer home, overwork, pound, rehash, repeat; concept 56 …   New thesaurus

  • belabor — transitive verb Date: 1596 1. a. to attack verbally b. to beat soundly 2. to explain or insist on excessively < belabor the obvious > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • belabor — be|la|bor [ bı leıbər ] verb transitive AMERICAN OLD FASHIONED to hit someone or something hard many times belabor the point to emphasize an idea or suggestion too much in a way that becomes boring or annoying …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • belabor — verb don t belabor the point Syn: overelaborate, labor, dwell on, harp on about, hammer away at; overdo, overplay, overdramatize, make too much of, place too much emphasis on; informal beat to death, drag out, make a big thing of, blow out of… …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • belabor — verb 1. to work at or to absurd length (Freq. 1) belabor the obvious • Syn: ↑belabour • Hypernyms: ↑work at, ↑work on • Verb Frames …   Useful english dictionary

  • belabor the point — {v. phr.} To overexplain something to the point of obviousness, resulting in ridicule. * / Lest I belabor the point, the teacher said, I must repeat the importance of teaching good grammar in class. / …   Dictionary of American idioms

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