belabor
verb[T]
USformal(UKbelabour)us/bɪˈleɪ.bɚ/uk/bɪˈleɪ.bər/belaborverb[T](EXPLAIN)
toexplainsomething more thannecessary:
There's no need to belabor thepoint.
Defining & explaining
- account (tosomeone) forsomething
- accountability
- adumbration
- annotation
- annotator
- crystallize
- define
- explain
- explicable
- explicate
- expound
- indescribable
- lay
- miswrite
- nail
- nailsomeonedown
- non-defining
- non-descriptive
- non-explanatory
- rough
belaborverb[T](HIT)
old-fashioned
tohitsomeone or something hard andrepeatedly:
She belabored him with herwalkingstick.
Hitting and beating
- at-risk
- bangsomeoneup
- basher
- bashing
- battered
- brain
- bunch
- butt
- head-butt
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knocksomeone'sblock offidiom
- mess
- swing
- tansomeone'shideidiom
- tar
- wallop
- whop
- whup
belaborverb[T](CRITICIZE)
UK
tocriticizesomeone
Disapproving & criticizing
- anathematize
- animadversion
- aspersion
- assail
- aw
- backbite
- dim
- fault
- mauling
- nitpick
- nitpicking
- peanut gallery
- people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stonesidiom
- personalization
- personalize
- philippic
- pick
- pitch
- sarky
- trash