What does belabour mean?
Definitions for belabour
be·labour
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Princeton's WordNet
belabor, belabourverb
to work at or to absurd length
"belabor the obvious"
belabour, belaborverb
beat soundly
belabor, belabourverb
attack verbally with harsh criticism
"She was belabored by her fellow students"
Wiktionary
belabourverb
To labour about; labour over; work hard upon; ply diligently.
belabourverb
To beat soundly; thump; beat someone.
belabourverb
To attack someone verbally.
belabourverb
To discuss something repeatedly; to harp on.
Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. - Inaugural speech 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Belabourverb
To beat; to thump: a word in low speech.
Etymology: from be and labour.
What several madnesses in men appear:
Orestes runs from fancy’d furies here;
Ajax belabours there an harmless ox,
And thinks that Agamemnon feels the knocks. John Dryden.He sees virago Nell belabour,
With his own staff, his peaceful neighbour. Jonathan Swift.
ChatGPT
belabour
To belabour means to argue or elaborate on a point excessively, often to the point where it becomes unnecessary or tiresome. It can also mean to beat or attack physically or verbally.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Belabour
be-lā′bur, v.t. to beat soundly.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of belabour in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of belabour in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Translations for belabour
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- هاجمArabic
- налагам, обиждамBulgarian
- بلابورPersian
- haukkua, piestäFinnish
- belabourPortuguese
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