Thesaurus / belabor
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At the risk of belaboring the obvious, the quarterback position matters in the NFL.
THE COLTS HIRED JEFF SATURDAY AS HEAD COACH. WE HAVE QUESTIONS.JOSH HERMSMEYERNOVEMBER 10, 2022FIVETHIRTYEIGHTThere is an easy seductiveness to stories that cast a technology as brand-new, or at the very least that don’t belabor long, complicated histories.
THE METAVERSE IS A NEW WORD FOR AN OLD IDEAGENEVIEVE BELLFEBRUARY 8, 2022MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWIndeed, 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 DAYWORDS RELATED TO BELABOR
- batter
- beat up
- belabor
- belt
- birch
- buffet
- bury
- cane
- chasten
- chastise
- clobber
- crush
- defeat
- flagellate
- flog
- jerk
- kill
- lambaste
- lick
- maul
- murder
- overwhelm
- paste
- pelt
- pitch
- pound
- pummel
- punish
- rout
- rush
- scourge
- seesaw
- slaughter
- spank
- stir
- strike
- surge
- tan
- tan one's hide
- thresh
- toss
- toss and turn
- trash
- trim
- trounce
- wallop
- wax
- whip
- work over
- writhe
- batter
- beat up
- belabor
- belt
- birch
- buffet
- bury
- cane
- chasten
- chastise
- clobber
- crush
- defeat
- flagellate
- flail
- flog
- jerk
- kill
- lambaste
- lick
- maul
- murder
- overwhelm
- paste
- pelt
- pitch
- pound
- pummel
- punish
- rout
- rush
- scourge
- seesaw
- slaughter
- spank
- stir
- strike
- surge
- tan
- tan one's hide
- toss
- toss and turn
- trash
- trim
- trounce
- wallop
- wax
- whip
- work over
- writhe
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