0 present 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
Additional comments regarding domains and crucial precedence relations follow, without belabouring obvious carry-overs from (55).
So it could seem as though it might almost be belabouring the point unnecessarily to parade our case once again.
I have seen little girls belabouring their horses or ponies because they have come off them at a jump.
I do not know why they devoted so large a portion of their speeches to labouring and belabouring that point.
It would be a pity if we were all to spend the rest of the century belabouring each other because a very obvious situation exists.
I hope it can be done without one side belabouring the other for years of maladministration.
The normal practice is to have the animal on a halter belabouring the beast on the nose to slow it down and one behind driving it on with a stick.
There are many decent citizens who feel they have to use private cars because of the difficulties in regard to transport that we are at the present moment belabouring.
