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belabour

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8 lettersPronunciation /bɪˈleɪ.bə/Part of speech verbSorted abbeloruStarts with BEnds with R0 clues
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Definitions

  1. attack verbally with harsh criticism

Word origin

From be- (“on, upon, about, over”) + labour. Compare bework, betoil, beswink.

Used in a sentence

  • [F]ew country people there are who do not love to see two sturdy fellows thwack and belabour each other with quarter-staff, single-stick, or fists.
  • 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, inaugural speech Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belabouring those problems which divide us.
  • And so, to belabour the school metaphor, diehard fans of both those fallen leaders resent this pair for snitching in class.

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