transcription, транскрипция: [ bɪleɪbə(r) ]
( belabours, belabouring, belaboured)
Note: in AM, use 'belabor'
1.
If you belabour someone or something, you hit them hard and repeatedly. ( OLD-FASHIONED )
= pummel
VERB
2.
If you say that someone belabours the point, you mean that they keep on talking about it, perhaps in an annoying or boring way.
I won’t belabour the point, for this is a familiar story.
= labour
VERB : V n