How to pronounce belabor in English

to emphasize an idea or suggestion too much in a way that becomes boring or annoying; to go on and on about something

to work at or to absurd length

"belabor the obvious"

attack verbally with harsh criticism

"She was belabored by her fellow students"

beat soundly

stop belaboring the fact that they're already in debt

there's no need to belabor other people's flaws when you're hardly perfect yourself

with a whip he belabored a horse almost to the point of death

• belabour
• bastinado
• batter
• beat
• bruise
• castigate
• chastise
• conquer
• cudgel
• defeat
• flog
• overcome
• pommel
• pound
• scourge
• smite
• spank
• strike
• surpass
• switch
• thrash
• vanquish
• whip
• worst
• thump
• knock
• lay blows upon
• dwell (on or upon)
• harp (on)
• abuse
• assail
• attack
• bash
• blast
• excoriate
• jump (on)
• lambaste
• lambast
• potshot
• savage
• scathe
• slam
• trash
• vituperate
• baste
• bat
• belt
• birch
• bludgeon
• buffet
• bung up
• club
• curry
• do
• drub
• fib
• hammer
• hide
• lace
• lash
• lather
• lick
• maul
• mess (up)
• paddle
• pelt
• pummel
• punch out
• rough (up)
• slate
• slog
• tan
• thresh
• tromp
• wallop
• whale
• whop
• whap
• whup
• work over

• disregard
• forget
• ignore
• overlook
• overpass
• pass over
• slight
• slur (over)

1. If the author hadn’t taken up so much space to belabor his viewpoint on the politics of the time, the novel would have been shorter and easier to read.

2. Because the speaker was inclined to belabor every point of his speech, the exhausted audience lost interest in everything he had to say.

3. Jo Ann’s strategy for settling an argument is to belabor her point until the other person gives up.

4. If you’re just going to continue to belabor the point, I’m going home.

5. If the committee chair doesn’t belabor any of the details on the agenda, we should be out of the meeting in half an hour.