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belabour US, belabor [bɪˈleɪbə] vb (tr)
1. to beat severely; thrash 2. to attack verbally; criticize harshly 3. an obsolete word for labour ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
belabour verb 1. beat, hit, strike, knock, punch, belt (informal), whip, deck (slang), batter, thrash, pound, flog, clobber (slang), tonk (informal), cudgel, thwack, lambast(e), lay one on (slang), drub Men began to belabour his shoulders with sticks. 2. attack, blast, put down, criticize, have a go (at) (informal), censure, malign, berate, castigate, revile, vilify, flame (informal), tear into (informal), lay into (informal), flay, diss (slang, chiefly U.S.), go for the jugular, lambast(e), excoriate They have been belaboured on all sides for withdrawing from the cup. 3. dwell on, go on about, linger over, harp on about, over-elaborate, over-emphasize, tarry over I will not belabour the point. Translations belabour [bɪˈleɪbər] (British) belabor (US) vt (= labour) [+ point] → insister sur (= pummel) → rouer de coups, rosser belabour, (US) belabor vt (= hit) → einschlagen auf (+acc) (fig, with insults etc) → überhäufen; (with questions) → beschießen, bearbeiten belabour belabor (Am) [bɪˈleɪbəʳ] vt (beat) → bastonare to belabour with (fig) (questions) → tartassare di (insults) → bombardare di belabour belabor (Am) [bɪˈleɪbəʳ] vt (beat) → bastonare to belabour with (fig) (questions) → tartassare di (insults) → bombardare di How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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They, mistaking the frantic cries of Mynheer Isaac for demonstrations of joy, began to belabour him with kicks and cuffs, such as could not have been administered in better style by any prize-fighter on the other side of the Channel. He may hit me on the head and they may belabour me from behind. One of the muleteers in attendance, who could not have had much good nature in him, hearing the poor prostrate man blustering in this style, was unable to refrain from giving him an answer on his ribs; and coming up to him he seized his lance, and having broken it in pieces, with one of them he began so to belabour our Don Quixote that, notwithstanding and in spite of his armour, he milled him like a measure of wheat. |
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