belabour
Britishverb
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to beat severely; thrash
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to attack verbally; criticize harshly
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an obsolete word for labour
Example Sentences
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"I'm sorry to belabour the point but I have to say that I'm confused by the discussion," Seamus Fernandez of Guggenheim Securities said later.
From BBC • May 16, 2025
You’d pick … but let’s not belabour the point.
From The Guardian • Sep. 6, 2021
That’s a state of affairs they’ll want to address sooner rather than later - and everyone’s said sorry, so let’s not belabour the point - before taking things from there.
From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2021
Acknowledge, but don’t belabour, the dreadful grief and pain that the person must be feeling.
From The Guardian • Oct. 7, 2017
For you profess to strike at folly, not at him who commits it: yet your tactics are precisely to belabour every act or opinion of which you disapprove, in the form of some one man.
From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.
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