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    [Verb]  | "be*la*bor" | \ bi-ˈlā-bər \


    1: to attack verbally

    2: to beat soundly

    3: to explain or insist on excessively


    Origin: 1596 ;

    [Verb]  | "belabored" 


    1: to speak or write about insistently and usually tiresomely;


      * e.g., " ... stop belaboring the fact that they're already in debt "





    2: to criticize harshly and usually publicly;


      * e.g., " ... there's no need to belabor other people's flaws when you're hardly perfect yourself "



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    3: to strike repeatedly;


      * e.g., " ... with a whip he belabored a horse almost to the point of death "



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    [Verb]  | "belabor" 


    1: to speak or write about insistently and usually tiresomely;


      * e.g., " ... stop belaboring the fact that they're already in debt "





    2: to criticize harshly and usually publicly;


      * e.g., " ... there's no need to belabor other people's flaws when you're hardly perfect yourself "



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    3: to strike repeatedly;


      * e.g., " ... with a whip he belabored a horse almost to the point of death "



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     [ "belabor" ]

    1: To stray away from.

      * e.g.,  ... He aimlessly belabored from his task. 

     [ "Belaborating" ]

    1: Explaining a concept too much, adding way too much detail to the point that it becomes boring.

      * e.g.,  ... Honey, you're belaborating. Just get to the point. 

     [ "belaboring his pumpkin" ]

    1:  beating the top of one's head 2a. having sex with a pumpkin*

      * e.g.,  ...  From Canto XVIII of Dante's "Inferno" (Longfellow translation): And he thereon, belaboring his pumpkin: 


     [ "belaboring his pumpkin" ]

    2: 2b. masturbating *Fun fact: If you have sex with a pumpkin, you are actually having sex with a fruit, not a vegetable...so the taboo does not apply!

      * e.g.,  ... "The flatteries have submerged me here below, 

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