MEANING
1. To discuss, explain, or criticize a point at unnecessary length or repeatedly.
2. To beat or strike someone or something repeatedly.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- belabor a point
- belabor the obvious
On the page
He belabored the point until the apology lost its meaning.
She supplied the correction without belaboring the error.
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Related words
Word forms
- Base
- belabor
- Past tense
- belabored
- Past participle
- belabored
- Present participle
- belaboring
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- belabor
- Present continuous
- am/is/are belaboring
- Present perfect
- have/has belabored
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been belaboring
- Past
- belabored
- Past continuous
- was/were belaboring
- Past perfect
- had belabored
- Past perfect continuous
- had been belaboring
- Future
- will belabor
- Future continuous
- will be belaboring
- Future perfect
- will have belabored
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been belaboring
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: belabor; belabors; belabored; belabored; belaboring Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: belabors.
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