belabourverb [ T ]
UK formal US belabor uk/bɪˈleɪ.bər/us/bɪˈleɪ.bɚ/belabour verb [ T ] (EXPLAIN)
to explain something more than necessary:
There's no need to belabour the point.
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Defining & explaining
- (do you) see what I mean? idiom
- account (to sb) for sth
- accountable
- cast
- clarify
- convey
- descriptive
- every picture tells a story idiom
- evocative
- evoke
- explicable
- explicate
- expound
- fill
- get sth across
- justify
- mean
- scene
- schematic
- that is to say ... idiom
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belabour verb [ T ] (HIT)
old-fashioned to hit someone or something hard and repeatedly:
She belaboured him with her walking stick.
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Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- deck
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- mess sb up
- pound
- pummel
- put the boot in idiom
- swing
- thump
- whack
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belabour verb [ T ] (CRITICIZE)
UK to criticize someone
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Disapproving & criticizing
- -basher
- animadversion
- aspersions
- backbite
- bad-mouth
- damn
- damn sb with faint praise idiom
- denounce
- dig
- disapproval
- give sb hell idiom
- nagging
- pick holes in sth idiom
- pitch into sb/sth
- pound
- pound away at sth/sb
- pull sth apart
- put the boot in idiom
- take a dim view of sth idiom
- throw
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