Belabour

Definitions: Belabour

Belabour

Verb

1. To work at or to absurd length: "belabor the obvious".

2. Beat soundly.

3. Attack verbally with harsh criticism; "She was belabored by her fellow students".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "belabour" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonym: Belabour

Expression using "belabour": belabour smb.. Additional references.

Albanian

bëj fërtele (belabor), zhdëp (belabor, drub, lambaste, larrup, trounce, wallop, whop), rrah paq (belabor). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هاجم (assault, attack, batter, beset, challenge, charge, contravene, dispute, hit, jump, lace, layabout, light into, mount an offensive, peck, press, prey on, prong, rush, set about, storm, strafe, strike), ‏ضرب (batter, battery, beat, beat off, biff, buffet, chastise, connect, curry, description, drub, drubbing, fib, flap, flapping, form, galvanize, genre, go getter, grain, hit, hitting, impact, jabbing, kidney, kind, lace, lace into smb., lam, larrup, let out, lock out, manner, multiplication, multiply, order, overtake, paddle, paste, pasting, patter, poke, pommel, pound, pummel, slash, slosh, sock, sort, stamp, strike, stripe, tan, tanning, thrash, thrashing, thresh, variety, wallop, whip), ‏جلد (belt, birch, curry, cut, drub, drubbing, endurance, flagellation, flog, flogging, fortitude, gladiatorial, hide, integument, lacing, lambaste, lash, lashing, leather, licking, pasting, patience, scourge, self control, skin, slash, slashing, stamina, sting, sufferance, switch, tan, thrash, thump, toleration, trounce, whip, whipping). (various references)

Bulgarian 

удрям силно (belabor, plunk, swat), обработвам (arrange, belabor, cultivate, cure, curry, farm, husband, labor, labour, plough, process, retrieve, till, tool, work, work up), обиждам (abuse, affront, aggrieve, belabor, dishonor, dishonour, give offense, give umbrage, huff, hurt, injure, insult, inveigh, offend, outrage, slight, spite, vituperate, wrong), бухам (belabor, curry, hoot, paddle). (various references)

Czech

zřídit (establish, institute, maul, open up, raise, refit). (various references)

Finnish

mukiloida (beat up, mug). (various references)

French

rouer de coups, invectiver, frapper (beat, beat off, beat up). (various references)

Greek 

ξυλοφορτώνω. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"לקות (beat, flagellate, flog, horsewhip, lash, scourge, tan, trounce, whip). (various references)

Hungarian

megver (belabor, bludgeon, clobber, defeat, discomfit, dress down, lick, to belabor, to belabour, to chastise, to cudgel, to defeat, to discomfit, to lay it on sy, to put over, to total, to trounce, to whop), helybenhagy (o.k., ok, okay, okey, to affirm, to approve, to belabor, to belabour, to O.K., uphold), elnáspángol (belabor, cudgel, Lam, larrup, to belabor, to belabour, to lace, to lay it on sy, to wallop, trounce, wallop), eldönget (to batter about, to belabor, to belabour, to leather, to lick). (various references)

Italian

battere (bang, baste, bat, batter, beat, belabor, chime, clobber, detonate, flail, flap, flog, flutter, fly, hammer, hit, knock, lambaste, maul, mint, outplay, overcome, plane, plane down, pound, pulsate, rap, strike, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, whack, whip, win), bastonare (beat, beat up, belabor, cane, club, drub, Lam, thrash), picchiare con violenza (belabor), ostinarsi su (belabor, insist), accanirsi su (belabor). (various references)

Manx

cur da (allow expenses, append, beat up, clock, contribute, enhance, etc, give over, hammer, hit, lash, pass over; article to trade, scold, thrash), bwoalley (assault, bang, bash, batter, beat, beat up, buffet, chime, clap, club, flap, hammer, hit, knock, mint, percussion, play, pound, pulsate, punch, rhythm, ring, rise of penis, scramble, shock, slam, slap, strike, thrash, thresh, throb, toll, wallop), broojer (crusher, pulverizer, rammer). (various references)

Pig Latin

elabourbay

Portuguese

ridicularizar (a regular guy, banter, belabor, bosh, burlesque, deride, lambency, lampooner, laugh off, make an ass of, mock, quiz, ridicule, scout), espancar (bat, beat, belabor, clobber, lambaste, larrup, lathe, lathery, lay off, maltreatment, maul, pasteboard, pomology, quilt, spank, swinge, thresh, thwack, trounce, wallop, welt, whang, whop), abusar de (belabor, misuse). (various references)

Romanian

bate zdravãn (trounce), bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rap, rattle, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst), târnui (besom), stâlci (beat smb. black and blue, bruise, distort, drub, flog, murder, whack, whip). (various references)

Russian 

колотить (bash, batter, beat, lambaste, larrup, lick, pelt, pounding, pummel, strike, thwack, whack, whop), бить (baste, beat, beaten, buffet, catch, chastise, chime, club, drub, hit, kicked, kicking, knock, lambaste, larrup, lick, pound, pummel, run across, smash, strike, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whop). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stalno navraćati, istući (beat, drub, thrash, wallop, whop, work over). (various references)

Spanish

extenderse sobre (belabor, span), criticar (animadvert, belabor, carp, censure, chicane, comment, criticize, fault, indict, judge, knock, nag, pick, pick on, zing), apalear (baste, batter, beat, beat up, belabor, bludgeon, club, drub, thrash). (various references)

Swedish

skarpt kritisera (belabor, impugn), klå upp (bash, beat up, belabor, cane, chaw up, clout, dress down, Lam, lambaste, lather, paste, paste up, strafe, wallop, whop). (various references)

Thai

พู�"มากหรือตอกย้ำเกิน (belabor). (various references)

Turkish

benzetmek (assimilate, associate, bash up, belabor, clobber, compare, do one's job for one, imitate, knock galley-west, liken, simulate, sort smb. out), uzatmak (augment, belabor, continue, drag out, draw out, eke out, elongate, enlarge, extend, grow, hand, hold out, hold over, lengthen, outstretch, pad out, pass, prolong, protract, pull out, rack, reach, renew, repose on, sidestep, span, spin out, sprawl out, spread, stand over, stick, stick out, stretch, stretch out, turn to, wiredraw), pataklamak (beat, beat up, belabor, flail, give smb. a whacking, give smb. the works, hide, knock galley-west, lace into, lambaste, lay into, whale, whop, work over), lafı uzatmak (belabor, go into details, labor, labour), dövmek (bash up, baste, batter, beat, beat out, beat up, belabor, Bray, bruise, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cudgel, drub, dust smb.'s jacket, flail, flog, forge, give a beating, give smb. a thrashing, give the stick, hammer, hide, knock about, knock around, Lam, lam into, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, Mall, maul, pelt, pound, punish, scutch, slog, sock, spifflicate, spiflicate, swage, swinge, tan, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip, whop), çok uzatmak (belabor). (various references)

Ukranian 

обсипати лайкою, обробляти (finish, process, work, work up), лупцювати (baste, fib, flail, hit out, lambaste, lick, pommel, pummel, whang), бити нещадно. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "belabour": belaboured, belabouring, belabours. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: barbule, belabor, rubeola.

-2 letters: barbel, bauble, boreal, bubale, bulbar, burble, labour, lobber, lubber, rabble, rouble, rubble.

-3 letters: abler, babel, babul, baler, barbe, blare, blear, bluer, blurb, bolar, boral, boule, bubal, labor, lobar, roble, ruble, ureal.

-4 letters: abbe, able, aero, aloe, babe, babu, bale, barb, bare, bear, beau, blab, blae, bleb, blob, blub, blue, blur.

+1 letter: belabours.

+2 letters: belaboured.

+3 letters: belabouring, boatbuilder, nonburnable, redoubtable, redoubtably.

+4 letters: blabbermouth, boatbuilders, buffaloberry, equiprobable, unobservable.

+5 letters: blabbermouths.

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