1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling He saw the village; he was seen coming bending forward upon his horse, belabouring it with great blows, the girths dripping with blood.
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Belabour
//bɪˈleɪ.bə//
Synonyms for "belabour" (5 found)
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14 translations across 6 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- налагам verb (to beat someone)
- обиждам verb (to attack someone verbally)
- удрям силно verb (to beat someone)
Dutch
2 entries- berispen verb (to attack someone verbally)
- slaan verb (to beat someone)
Finnish
2 entries- haukkua verb (to attack someone verbally)
- piestä verb (to beat someone)
Māori
1 entries- tuangau verb (to beat someone)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- slå løs på verb (to beat someone)
Spanish
4 entries- extenderse verb (to harp on or overelaborate)
- insistir verb (to harp on or overelaborate)
- laborear verb (to harp on or overelaborate)
- labrar verb (to harp on or overelaborate)
Sample sentences
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[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.
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1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, inaugural speech Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belabouring those problems which divide us.
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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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