belabor (Amer.)
v.
criticize, ridicule; excessively elaborate on a topic; beat, hit (also belabour)
belabor
Verb
1. to work at or to absurd length; "belabor the obvious"
(synonym) belabour
(hypernym) work at, work on
2. attack verbally with harsh criticism; "She was belabored by her fellow students"
(synonym) belabour
(hypernym) knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
3. beat soundly
(synonym) belabour
(hypernym) beat, beat up, work over
Belabor
(v. t.)
To ply diligently; to work carefully upon.
(v. t.)
To beat soundly; to cudgel.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
BELABOR
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