Belabours

Word BELABOURS
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Definitions and meanings of "Belabours"

What do we mean by belabours?

To labour about; labour over; work hard upon; ply diligently.

To beat soundly; thump; beat someone.

To attack someone verbally.

To discuss something repeatedly; to harp on.

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The word "belabours" in example sentences

This can be interpreted several ways, but I'm going to assume (given the style and diction) he means this: "obviously the Joker is a sadistic psychopath in clown make-up -- and Nolan sure isn't about to argue -- but this isn't enough for the (co-)writer-director, who belabours the character's allegorical significance so heavily that he ultimately drains him of something essential." ❋ Ed Howard (2008)

I do not think he belabours the point by any means, but I think that it is good for anyone but his campaign if this ends up being the fact. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It doesn't help that the contents page is in random order as the chapters appear to be at least so far - and the author belabours jokes a bit too pedantically. ❋ Curufea (2007)

O'Brian never belabours his effects, never nudges you to make sure you notice: he can kill off a sympathetic character we've known for ten novels in a single sentence and let you make what you will of it and in this situation, if the author has to tell you how to react, either he or you is doing something badly wrong. ❋ Tim Stretton (2007)

This grinning man belabours the patient violently with the horse-brush. ❋ Unknown (2004)

For each bothy ballad that belabours the farmers there is a sylvan ballad or three on the joys of country life. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The Comedian cannot pay heed to such fine distinctions, but belabours the whole tribe with indiscriminate raillery and scurrility. ❋ 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes (N/A)

_ "" Little instructions shall you have though great store of doctrines and many uses to small purpose; he putts much zeale into his booke, and belabours his tongue exceedingly. ❋ John Earle (N/A)

Philistine messiahs, the roaring of which still belabours the ear. ❋ Unknown (1918)

And the giant belabours him with the stake, and makes him bend beneath the blows. ❋ De Troyes Chr��tien (1914)

A church is more fantastic to me than the room in which Punch belabours Judy. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)

He can be violent, and over-rhetorical; he belabours you with sense impressions, and with the polysyllabic rhetoric he learned from Swinburne -- and (though this is not the place for a discussion of political ideas) he can offend by the sentimental brutalism which too often passes for patriotism in his poetry. ❋ G. H. Mair (1906)

And again the same arrangement occurs in certain scenes of Don Quixote; for instance, in the inn scene, where, by an extraordinary concatenation of circumstances, the mule-driver strikes Sancho, who belabours Maritornes, upon whom the innkeeper falls, etc. ❋ Henri Bergson (1900)

Quick as thought the doctor now whisks the leaves away with the ghosts in them; he belabours them with a cudgel, he hangs them up in the smoke, or he throws them into the fire. ❋ James George Frazer (1897)

In return he receives a box, which he takes to his master, but out of the box jumps a dwarf with an iron club, who belabours them both till they are nearly dead, and then disappears with the box. ❋ Unknown (1878)

Tiler then resumes his own clothes, goes home, and pities his wife, who, ignorant of the trick, vows she will never love him again: to appease her, he unwarily owns up; whereupon she snatches a stick, and belabours him till he cries out for life; and she declares that Tailor had better eaten her than beaten her. ❋ Hudson, H N (1872)

One father soundly belabours one of these "wicked Magi" with the cord of his order, invoking all the while the aid of Saint Michael and the rest of the saints: he enters the "hellish tabernacle, arming himself frequently with the sign of the cross," but he retreats for fear of a mischief from the "poor deluded pagans," -- showing that he is, after all, but an "unbelieving Thomas." ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

But soon they are perceived by the dusky herdsman, who incontinently shrieks like one possessed by demons, and rushing after the stray kine with a bough hastily picked up, chases and belabours them up and down the field (the gate of which he has never thought of opening), until he has done as much mischief as possible to the crop. ❋ Edward Wilson Landor (1844)

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