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Definition of belabor
transitive verb
1a : to attack verbally 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 Holmesb : to beat soundly … 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
2 : to explain or insist on excessively her habit of belaboring the obvious He needlessly belabored the point.
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Examples of belabor in a Sentence
Her habit of belaboring the obvious makes her a very boring speaker.
Please don't belabor the point.
He uses his newspaper column to belabor writers for even the most minor grammatical errors.
Recent Examples of belabor from the Web
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One issue that seems to belabor proceedings is that Snowfall is, above all, an origin story.
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The parallels with events at the start of this century are plain to see, yet the movie, to its credit, does not belabor them.
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But the point Mainieri belabored -- and justifiably so -- were the five errors that let Texas Southern hold a 7-5 lead after the top of the fifth.
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Bar-Lev belabors some anecdotes, notably one involving the band’s sabotage-by-LSD of a documentary crew.
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Curtain Call: The final number utilizes a door and was a bit lengthy and belabored.
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But by the film’s belabored end, the franchise has shed its host.
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That's more than twice Apple's total revenue -- which, not to belabor the point, is the most valuable company in America.
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In that case, wasn’t Mr. Dixon belaboring the obvious in delivering the statement prepared by him and his associates (including Mr. Miranda)?
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First Known Use of belabor
1596
BELABOR Defined for English Language Learners
belabor
playDefinition of belabor for English Language Learners
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: to talk about (something) for too long : to repeat or stress (something) too much or too often
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: to attack or criticize (someone)
BELABOR Defined for Kids
belabor
playDefinition of belabor for Students
belabored
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: to keep explaining or insisting on to excess belabor an argument
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