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# belabour

«belabour» in Mova's school dictionary: **to beat them hard again and again, usually with a stick** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (belabours, belaboured, belabouring); American spelling «belabor»

### meaning for a pupil

To belabour someone is to beat them hard again and again, usually with a stick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/belabour/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a fight where one character hits another with a club or stick; also used for beating something hard

### examples

- The giant belaboured his friend with a club. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/belabour/#x1)
- The angry farmer belaboured the sack with his stick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/belabour/#x2)
- Mercury belaboured the rogue with his staff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/belabour/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «belabour» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/belabour/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.