belabor

[ bih-ley-ber ]

/ bɪˈleɪ bər /

to explain, worry about, or work at (something) repeatedly or more than is necessary: He kept belaboring the point long after we had agreed.

to assail persistently, as with scorn or ridicule: a book that belabors the provincialism of his contemporaries.

to beat vigorously; ply with heavy blows.

Obsolete. to labor at.

Also especially British, be·la·bour.

Origin of belabor

First recorded in 1590–1600; be- + labor

To belabor the comparison a bit, the same could be said for the American Dream.

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And she chose the dinner party where he was the guest to belabor him with this abuse.

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And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination.

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The appearance of a lady on the scene did not calm Thlnies wrath; she continued to belabor the lost child, exclaiming: Ah!

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Whereat the furious fox-hunter began to belabor the squire with the whip, all the witnesses giving him plenty of room.

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Julien got into the cabriolet beside the driver, who began at once to belabor vigorously his mulish animal.

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An old woman, standing by our camp, continued to belabor a good-looking young man for hours with her tongue.

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“You wicked young rascal, I shall tell the policeman of you,” she gasped, and began to belabor Sylvia with her umbrella.

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