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belabours

belabours is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Phrases with belabours

Questions about belabours

What is belabours the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Belabours is the third-person singular simple present indicative of belabour.

Words near belabours in the dictionary

  1. belabourer
  2. belabourers
  3. belaboureth
  4. belabouring
  5. belabouring the point
  6. belabours
  7. belabours the point
  8. belacan
  9. belace
  10. belaced
  11. belaces

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