Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To talk or write about at length or excessively; harp on.
- transitive verb To assail verbally.
- transitive verb To attack with blows; hit, beat, or whip.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To work hard upon; ply diligently.
- To beat soundly; thump.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To ply diligently; to work carefully upon.
- transitive verb To beat soundly; to cudgel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb US Alternative spelling of
belabour .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb attack verbally with harsh criticism
- verb to work at or to absurd length
- verb beat soundly
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Examples
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He tends to find a point in his case (and in both books, the point he chooses to belabor is ridiculous and would not BE a point in a real case of law) and go over and over and over that point ad nauseum until you want to scream.
Curlicue Tales...and Martini's - hold the grammar deep_bluze 2005
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Not to belabor the topic, but there is an important distinction between being what is called a "foreign resident" for tax purposes and a resident with regards to your immigration status.
FM2 and Citizenship 2009
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I don't really want to belabor this since we're not even on the original topic of this thread.
Dialect and Language discussion - pulled from another thread . . . 2009
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I don't really want to belabor this since we're not even on the original topic of this thread.
Dialect and Language discussion - pulled from another thread . . . 2009
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I don't really want to belabor this since we're not even on the original topic of this thread.
Dialect and Language discussion - pulled from another thread . . . 2009
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To belabor the obvious, La Jornada is a leftist newspaper.
San Juan Copala 2009
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To belabor the obvious, La Jornada is a leftist newspaper.
San Juan Copala 2009
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To belabor the obvious, La Jornada is a leftist newspaper.
San Juan Copala 2009
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To belabor the obvious, La Jornada is a leftist newspaper.
San Juan Copala 2009
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I don't really want to belabor this since we're not even on the original topic of this thread.
Dialect and Language discussion - pulled from another thread . . . 2009
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