belabour

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To discuss something repeatedly; to harp on

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. - Inaugural speech 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

To attack someone verbally
To beat someone

He saw the village; he was seen coming bending forward upon his horse, belabouring it with great blows, the girths dripping with blood.

If you say that someone belabours the point, you mean that they keep on talking about it, perhaps in an annoying or boring way. I won't belabour the point, for this is a familiar story. = labour
attack verbally with harsh criticism; "She was belabored by her fellow students"
{f} criticize, ridicule; excessively elaborate on a topic; beat, hit (also belabor)
be·la·bour belabours belabouring belaboured in AM, use belabor1. If you belabour someone or something, you hit them hard and repeatedly. = pummel
to work at or to absurd length; "belabor the obvious"
beat soundly
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Alternative spelling of belabour
belabor
{v} to thump, thump hard, beat soundly
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attack verbally with harsh criticism; "She was belabored by her fellow students"
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To beat soundly; to cudgel
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To attack someone verbally
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To beat someone
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To discuss something repeatedly; to harp on
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to work at or to absurd length; "belabor the obvious"
belabor
{f} criticize, ridicule; excessively elaborate on a topic; beat, hit (also belabour)
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To ply diligently; to work carefully upon
belabor
attack verbally with harsh criticism; "She was belabored by her fellow students" to work at or to absurd length; "belabor the obvious
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beat soundly
belabor
to work at or to absurd length; "belabor the obvious
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