0 past simple and past participle of belabour
1 to explain something more than necessary:
There's no need to belabour the point.
2 to hit someone or something hard and repeatedly:
3 to criticize someone
That seems to me to be a very odd thing to be belaboured for.
He is a gentleman who has been belaboured a great deal in recent weeks.
No doubt, she would also have been belaboured for taking the decision on her own.
The point is not improved by being belaboured.
What has he been belaboured for?
I believe that this control, belaboured as it is by its opponents, is a useful tool of regional planning, and should be maintained for that purpose.
No one belaboured the question of colour.
That was a rather belaboured remark.
