belabour
verb[T]
UKformal(USbelabor)uk/bɪˈleɪ.bər/us/bɪˈleɪ.bɚ/belabourverb[T](EXPLAIN)
toexplainsomething more thannecessary:
过多地说明There's no need to belabour thepoint.不必过多强调这一点。
Defining & explaining
- account (tosomeone) forsomething
- accountability
- adumbration
- annotation
- annotator
- crystallize
- demystify
- explicable
- explicate
- expound
- lay
- misdescribe
- miswrite
- nail
- nailsomeonedown
- non-defining
- non-descriptive
- outline
- rough
- trace
belabourverb[T](HIT)
old-fashioned
tohitsomeone or something hard andrepeatedly:
痛打She belaboured him with herwalkingstick.她用拐杖把他痛打了一顿。
Hitting and beating
- at-risk
- bangsomeoneup
- basher
- bashing
- battered
- brain
- bunch
- butt
- deck
- head-butt
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knocksomeone'sblock offidiom
- mess
- swing
- tansomeone'shideidiom
- wallop
- whop
- whup
belabourverb[T](CRITICIZE)
UK
tocriticizesomeone
批评Disapproving & criticizing
- anathematize
- animadversion
- aspersion
- assail
- aw
- backbite
- criticism
- dim
- fault
- niggle
- nitpick
- nitpicking
- opprobrious
- peanut gallery
- people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stonesidiom
- personalization
- personalize
- philippic
- sarky
- tear