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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.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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 Dictionary


belabor
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 belabor


belabor
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.
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