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Definition

to keep talking about something more than is necessary — especially to overexplain

More rarely (and archaically), belabor can refer to repeatedly hitting or criticizing someone.

Please don't belabor the obvious.

belabor = keep talking about something more than is necessary

Other people have that belabored look when they play, but you can't hear it in the sound.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink
He saw the village; he was seen coming bending forward upon his horse, belabouring it with great blows, the girths dripping with blood.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use belaboring.)

He bellowed, while he belabored Martin's back: "Well, well, well, well, well, well!
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
Legree was provoked beyond measure by Tom's evident happiness; and riding up to him, belabored him over his head and shoulders.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
"I do not mean to belabor this point of language, your honor," I continued, "but I would like to cite a precedent case for the benefit of the court.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
He belaboured her with reproaches, abuses.
Virginia Woolf -- A Sketch of the Past

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use belabored.)

The long beam continued to belabor the door, at regular intervals, like the clapper of a bell, the stones to rain down, the door to groan.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Belabored by their officers, they began to move forward.
Stephen Crane -- The Red Badge of Courage
But Rieux was thinking of Cottard, and the dull thud of fists belaboring the wretched man's face haunted him as he went to visit his old asthma patient.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
Again, July felt belabored by the tireless thing in Clara.
Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
He may hit me on the head and they may belabour me from behind.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Notes from the Underground

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use belabor.)

They cried out to their respective households, belabored and slew people round about, and went entirely mad.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.
John F. Kennedy -- Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You
Tiagunova seemed to be chasing Ogryzkova, perhaps belaboring her with her fists whenever she caught up with her.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
The quilt that rested across Sacha's nose and mouth shifted with her belabored breathing.
Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
We sit as though in a boiler that is being belaboured from without on all sides.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use belabored.)

Moody's grandfather wrote in belabored, redundant, didactic prose.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
Belabored by the ox-goad of Lykourgos, killer that he was, they all flung down their ivy-staves, while terrified Dionysos plunged under a sea-surge.
Homer -- The Iliad
Between them they belaboured the boy right soundly, and then gave the girls and their mother a beating for showing sympathy for the victim.
Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use belabored.)

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