belabor

belabor
    v 1: to work at or to absurd length; "belabor the obvious" [syn:
         {belabor}, {belabour}]
    2: attack verbally with harsh criticism; "She was belabored by
       her fellow students" [syn: {belabor}, {belabour}]
    3: beat soundly [syn: {belabour}, {belabor}]
    

Belabor \Be*la"bor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Belabored}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Belaboring}.]
   1. To ply diligently; to work carefully upon. "If the earth
      is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn." --Barrow.
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   2. To beat soundly; to cudgel.
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            Ajax belabors there a harmless ox.    --Dryden.
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72 Moby Thesaurus words for "belabor":
      accent, accentuate, always trot out, baste, bastinado, batter,
      beat, belt, birch, buffet, cane, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, drub,
      dwell on, dwell upon, emphasize, flagellate, flail, flog,
      fustigate, give a whipping, give emphasis to, give the stick,
      hammer away at, harp on, highlight, horsewhip, insist upon,
      italicize, knout, labor, lace, lambaste, lash, lay on,
      overaccentuate, overemphasize, overstress, pelt, pistol-whip,
      place emphasis on, point up, pommel, pound, pummel, punctuate,
      rawhide, rub in, scourge, smite, spank, spotlight, star, strap,
      stress, stripe, swinge, switch, thrash, thresh over, thump,
      trounce, truncheon, underline, underscore, wallop, whale, whip,
      whop