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Indeed, author Steven Rowley offers the perfect mix of snorts and sobs here, snarky fun one minute and pathos the next but neither emotion is belabored or forced.
‘THE GUNCLE’ NEVER WANTED KIDS BUT NOW HAS TWOTERRI SCHLICHENMEYERJULY 13, 2021WASHINGTON BLADEYou know where this is going, of course, and I won’t belabor it.
GENE WEINGARTEN: CONFESSIONS OF A COMPASSIONATE HIT MANGENE WEINGARTENFEBRUARY 25, 2021WASHINGTON POSTAdmittedly belaboring the point, that chain — cases to hospitalizations to deaths — is not only intuitively obvious but also predictable.
THE PANDEMIC’S DEATH TOLL IS A TSUNAMI ANYONE COULD SEE COMING — IF THEY LOOKEDPHILIP BUMPDECEMBER 3, 2020WASHINGTON POSTHe threw his right arm upward as if to escape a blow, but the old dame did not belabor him.
THE DRAGON PAINTERMARY MCNEIL FENOLLOSAAn old woman, standing by our camp, continued to belabor a good-looking young man for hours with her tongue.
MISSIONARY TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICADAVID LIVINGSTONEThe northerners strike the back of the rim with their sticks, while the Yukon people belabor the face of the drum.
THE DANCE FESTIVALS OF THE ALASKAN ESKIMOERNEST WILLIAM HAWKESPresently, when the couch was a wreck and Bob had Frank over his knees and was preparing to belabor him, Jack interfered.
THE RADIO BOYS WITH THE REVENUE GUARDSGERALD BRECKENRIDGEAn old man stood up and began to belabor the frightened animal.
THE RAINY DAY RAILROAD WARHOLMAN DAYLike lubberly monks, we belabor our own shoulders, and take a vast satisfaction in the music of our own groans.
KNICKERBOCKER'S HISTORY OF NEW YORK, COMPLETEWASHINGTON IRVINGShe snatched a bamboo to belabor the girl, and in chasing her knocked over the pun of pots aforesaid.
ACROSS CHINA ON FOOTEDWIN DINGLEWORDS RELATED TO BELABOR
- amplify
- be intemperate
- belabor
- bite off too much
- do to death
- drive oneself
- exaggerate
- fatigue
- go overboard
- go too far
- hype
- lay it on
- magnify
- make federal case
- not know when to stop
- overburden
- overestimate
- overindulge
- overload
- overplay
- overrate
- overreach
- overstate
- overtax
- overtire
- overuse
- overvalue
- overwork
- pile on
- pressure
- puff
- run into the ground
- run riot
- strain oneself
- stretch
- talk big
- wear down
- wear oneself out
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.