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verb
Belabor  v. t.  (past & past part. belabored; pres. part. belaboring)  
1.
To ply diligently; to work carefully upon. "If the earth is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn."
2.
To beat soundly; to cudgel. "Ajax belabors there a harmless ox."






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"Belabor" Quotes from Famous Books



... youngsters trying to climb ropes, the Governor leads the way thither. The man, evidently a ryot, is lying on his back, his feet are lashed together and held soles uppermost by means of an horizontal pole, while the farrashes briskly belabor them with willow sticks. The soles of the ryot's feet are hard and thick as rhinoceros hide almost from habitually walking barefooted, and under these conditions his punishment is evidently anything but severe. The flagellation goes merrily and uninterruptedly forward ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens

... tail, with just such a convenient spot laid bare to the tender mercies of the whipster. But, since Nature has resumed her rights, it is to be hoped that this patient creature does not suffer to extremities,—and that to the savages who still belabor his poor carcass with their blows (considering the sort of anvil they are laid upon,) he might in some sort, if he could speak, exclaim, with the philosopher, "Lay on! you beat but upon the ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 • Various

... school, for I do not understand the music of the present, which consists in a great deal of noise and confusion. Listening the last time to Miss Hilst's playing at Laura's, I thought to myself that if the piano were a man who had seduced her sister, she could not belabor him more mercilessly. She also plays on the harmonium. Her compositions are thought of a great deal here, and considered very deep; most likely because those who could not understand them, hearing them ...
— Without Dogma • Henryk Sienkiewicz



Words linked to "Belabor" :   work over, criticize, belabour, pick apart, beat, work on, work at



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