词汇 | belabor |
释义 | belabor verb[ T ] USformal(UKbelabour)us/bɪˈleɪ.bɚ/uk /bɪˈleɪ.bər/ belaborverb[T] (EXPLAIN)to explain something more than necessary: There's no need to belabor the point. Defining & explaining account (to someone) for something accountability adumbrate adumbration annotation annotator belabour demythologize excuse extenuate indefinably indescribably inexpressibly justificatory lay something out outline sketch spell walk through something what is he, are they, etc. like?idiom belaborverb[T] (HIT)old-fashioned to hit someone or something hard and repeatedly: She belabored him with her walking stick. Hitting and beating at-risk bang away bang someone up basher bashing bunch butt fetch gut punch head-butt hell kick mess nail swing tan someone's hideidiom tonk wallop whop whup belaborverb[T] (CRITICIZE)UK to criticize someone Disapproving & criticizing anathematize animadversion aspersion aw backbite barrel bash belabour disapprobation knock knocker let someone have both barrelsidiom low blow mordacious mordancy pile poorly slam there you goidiom union-basher belabor | American Dictionarybelabor verb[ T ] us/bɪˈleɪ·bər/ to explain something more than necessary: I don’t want to belabor the point, but I still don’t think you understand. Examples of belaborbelabor To belabor the point, if "agental prevention" exists this is simply the special case of the singleton set. They have to be exposed, criticized, belabored, used up. Perhaps the number of times this phrase is repeated speaks to the fact that the text needs to belabor a message that is resisted by itself. Proving that political leaders (especially in a patrimonial regime) rst and foremost serve their interests, even at the expense of their developmental goals, is perhaps belaboring the obvious. We need not belabor the grave danger inherent in the contest broadcast by defendant. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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