BELABOR

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To ply diligently; to work carefully upon. "If the earth is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn." Barrow.

2.
v.

To beat soundly; to cudgel. Ajax belabors there a harmless ox. Dryden.


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