Monday, May 21, 2012
Definitions for belabor
- To explain, worry about, or work more than is necessary.
- To assail persistently, as with scorn or ridicule.
- To beat vigorously; ply with heavy blows.
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Citations for belabor
Yours and everybody else's, thought Swiffers, but he didn't wish to belabor the obvious.
It is distasteful to the present writer to belabor any of his fellow writers, living or dead, and, except Boccaccio, who also stood for a detestable human trait, he has here avoided doing so.
Origin of belabor
1590-1600
Like besot, belabor comes from the prefix be- which makes a verb out of a noun and the root labor meaning "to work."
