belabour

verbB1

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verb

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belabours

V_ing/Gerund

belabouring

V_ed/pp

belabouredbelabor

1.
(UK, obsolete, transitive)To labour about; labour over; to work hard upon; to ply diligently.
2.
(UK, transitive)To beat or thump (someone) soundly.
1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling He saw the village; he was seen coming bending forward upon his horse, belabouring it with great blows, the girths dripping with blood.
Đồng nghĩa: buffet, thrash
3.
(UK, transitive)To attack (someone) verbally.
4.
(UK, transitive)To discuss or explain (something) excessively or repeatedly; to harp on or overelaborate.
1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, inaugural speech Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belabouring those problems which divide us.

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belabouredlybelabourerbelabour the point

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From be-- + labour. Compare bework, betoil, beswink.