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 --
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.
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.
I hope it can be done without one side belabouring the other for years of maladministration.
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 do not know why they devoted so large a portion of their speeches to labouring and belabouring that point.
I have seen little girls belabouring their horses or ponies because they have come off them at a jump.
So it could seem as though it might almost be belabouring the point unnecessarily to parade our case once again.
Additional comments regarding domains and crucial precedence relations follow, without belabouring obvious carry-overs from (55).
