Definition of belabor
- If I had been ill-natured, I should have shown up the little great man, who had once belabored me in his feeble way.
- —Oliver Wendell Holmes
- … ancient battles in which the combatants belabored one another with swords, staffs, cudgels, halberds and other heavy-duty weapons until the blood flowed …
- —James Rogers
- her habit of belaboring the obvious
- He needlessly belabored the point.