belabour
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Is belabour a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
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- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of belabour?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive, obsolete) To labour about; labour over; to work hard upon; to ply diligently.UKobsoletetransitive
2. (transitive) To beat or thump (someone) soundly.Examples: "1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling He saw the village; he was seen coming bending forward upon his horse, belabouring it with great blows, the girths dripping with blood."; "[F]ew country people there are who do not love to see two sturdy fellows thwack and belabour each other with quarter-staff, single-stick, or fists."Synonyms: buffet, thrashUKtransitive
3. (transitive) To attack (someone) verbally.UKtransitive
4. (transitive) To discuss or explain (something) excessively or repeatedly; to harp on or overelaborate.Examples: "1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, inaugural speech Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belabouring those problems which divide us."; "And so, to belabour the school metaphor, diehard fans of both those fallen leaders resent this pair for snitching in class."UKtransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary