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belabour'd

belabour'd is the simple past and past participle of belabour.

Meaning of belabour

Verb

belabour (third-person singular simple present belabours, present participle belabouring, simple past and past participle belaboured)

  1. (UK, obsolete, transitive) To labour about; labour over; to work hard upon; to ply diligently.
  2. (UK, transitive) To beat or thump (someone) soundly.
    • 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.
    Synonyms:
    buffet, thrash
  3. (UK, transitive) To attack (someone) verbally.
  4. (UK, transitive) To discuss or explain (something) excessively or repeatedly; to harp on or overelaborate.
    • Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belabouring those problems which divide us.1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, inaugural speech

Questions about belabour'd

What is belabour'd the simple past and past participle of?
Belabour'd is the simple past and past participle of belabour.

Words near belabour'd in the dictionary

  1. belaboring the point
  2. belabors
  3. belabors the point
  4. belabour
  5. belabour the point
  6. belabour'd
  7. belaboured
  8. belaboured the point
  9. belabouredly
  10. belabourer
  11. belabourers

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