belabor
verb
1 belabor
To work at or to absurd length:
— Belabor the obvious.
synonym: belabour.
Roget 972:
punish;
chastise,
chasten;
castigate,
correct,
inflict punishment,
administer correction,
deal retributive justice;
cowhide,
lambaste [Slang].
visit upon,
pay;
pay out,
serve out;
do for;
make short work of,
give a lesson to,
serve one right,
make an example of;
have a rod in pickle for;
give it one.
strike
etc.
276;
deal a blow to,
administer the lash,
smite;
slap,
slap the face;
smack,
cuff,
box the ears,
spank,
thwack,
thump,
beat,
lay on,
swinge†,
buffet;
thresh,
thrash,
pummel,
drub,
leather,
trounce,
sandbag,
baste,
belabor;
lace,
lace one's jacket;
dress,
dress down,
give a dressing,
trim,
warm,
wipe,
tund†,
cob,
bang,
strap,
comb,
lash,
lick,
larrup,
wallop,
whop,
flog,
scourge,
whip,
birch,
cane,
give the stick,
switch,
flagellate,
horsewhip,
bastinado,
towel,
rub down with an oaken towel,
rib roast,
dust one's jacket,
fustigate†,
pitch into,
lay about one,
beat black and blue;
beat to a mummy,
beat to a jelly;
give a black eye.
tar and feather;
pelt,
stone,
lapidate†;
masthead,
keelhaul.
execute;
bring to the block,
bring to the gallows;
behead,
decapitate,
guillotine;
decollate;
hang,
turn off,
gibbet,
bowstring,
hang draw and quarter;
shoot;
decimate;
burn;
break on the wheel,
crucify;
empale†,
impale;
flay;
lynch;
electrocute;
gas,
send to the gas chamber.
torture;
put on,
put to the rack;
picket.
banish,
exile,
transport,
expel,
ostracize;
rusticate;
drum out;
dismiss,
disbar,
disbench†;
strike off the roll,
unfrock;
post.
suffer,
suffer for,
suffer punishment;
be flogged.
be executed,
suffer the ultimate penalty;
be hanged
&c.;
come to the gallows,
mount the gallows,
swing [Coll.],
twist in the wind,
dance upon nothing,
die in one's shoes;
be rightly served;
be electrocuted,
fry [Coll.],
ride the lightning [Coll.];
face the firing squad.
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Roget 276:
give an impetus
etc.
n.;
impel,
push;
start,
give a start to,
set going;
drive,
urge,
boom;
thrust,
prod,
foin [Fr.];
cant;
elbow,
shoulder,
jostle,
justle†,
hustle,
hurtle,
shove,
jog,
jolt,
encounter;
run against,
bump against,
butt against;
knock one's head against,
run one's head against;
impinge;
boost [U.S.];
bunt,
carom,
clip y;
fan,
fan out;
jab,
plug [Slang].
strike,
knock,
hit,
tap,
rap,
slap,
flap,
dab,
pat,
thump,
beat,
blow,
bang,
slam,
dash;
punch,
thwack,
whack;
hit hard,
strike hard;
swap,
batter,
dowse†,
baste;
pelt,
patter,
buffet,
belabor;
fetch one a blow;
poke at,
pink,
lunge,
yerk†;
kick,
calcitrate†;
butt,
strike at
etc.
(attack)
716;
whip
etc.
(punish)
972.
come into a collision,
enter into collision;
collide;
sideswipe;
foul;
fall foul of,
run foul of;
telescope.
throw
etc.
(propel)
284.
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2 belabor
Attack verbally with harsh criticism:
— She was belabored by her fellow students.
synonym: belabour.
3 belabor
noun
Roget 273:
ship,
vessel,
sail;
craft,
bottom.
navy,
marine,
fleet,
flotilla;
shipping.
man of war
etc.
(combatant)
726;
transport,
tender,
storeship†;
merchant ship,
merchantman;
packet,
liner;
whaler,
slaver,
collier,
coaster,
lighter;
fishing boat,
pilot boat;
trawler,
hulk;
yacht;
baggala†;
floating hotel,
floating palace;
ocean greyhound.
ship,
bark,
barque,
brig,
snow,
hermaphrodite brig;
brigantine,
barkantine†;
schooner;
topsail schooner,
for and aft schooner,
three masted schooner;
chasse-maree [Fr.];
sloop,
cutter,
corvette,
clipper,
foist,
yawl,
dandy,
ketch,
smack,
lugger,
barge,
hoy†,
cat,
buss;
sailer,
sailing vessel;
windjammer;
steamer,
steamboat,
steamship,
liner,
ocean liner,
cruisp,
flap,
dab,
pat,
thump,
beat,
blow,
bang,
slam,
dash;
punch,
thwack,
whack;
hit hard,
strike hard;
swap,
batter,
dowse†,
baste;
pelt,
patter,
buffet,
belabor;
fetch one a blow;
poke at,
pip,
ship of the line;
destroyer,
cruiser,
frigate;
landing ship,
LST;
aircraft carrier,
carrier,
flattop [Coll.],
nuclear powered carrier;
submarine,
submersible,
atomic submarine.
boat,
pinnace,
launch;
life boat,
long boat,
jolly boat,
bum boat,
fly boat,
cock boat,
ferry boat,
canal boat;
swamp boat,
ark,
bully,
battery,
bateau [Can.],
broadhorn†,
dory,
droger†,
drogher;
dugout,
durham boat,
flatboat,
galiot†;
shallop†,
gig,
funny,
skiff,
dingy,
scow,
cockleshell,
wherry,
coble†,
punt,
cog,
kedge,
lerret†;
eight oar,
four oar,
pair oar;
randan†;
outrigger;
float,
raft,
pontoon;
prame†;
iceboat,
ice canoe,
ice yacht.
catamaran,
hydroplane,
hovercraft,
coracle,
gondola,
carvel†,
caravel;
felucca,
caique†,
canoe,
birch bark canoe,
dugout canoe;
galley,
galleyfoist†;
bilander†,
dogger†,
hooker,
howker†;
argosy,
carack†;
galliass†,
galleon;
polacca†,
polacre†,
tartane†,
junk,
lorcha†,
praam†,
proa†,
prahu†,
saick†,
sampan,
xebec,
dhow;
dahabeah†;
nuggah†;
kayak,
keel boat [U.S.],
log canoe,
pirogue;
quadrireme†,
trireme;
stern-wheeler [U.S.];
wanigan†,
wangan [U.S.],
wharf boat.
balloon;
airship,
aeroplane;
biplane,
monoplane,
triplane†;
hydroplane;
aerodrome;
air balloon,
pilot balloon,
fire balloon,
dirigible,
zeppelin;
aerostat,
Montgolfier;
kite,
parachute.
jet plane,
rocket plane,
jet liner,
turbojet,
prop-jet,
propeller plane;
corporate plane,
corporate jet,
private plane,
private aviation;
airline,
common carrier;
fighter,
bomber,
fighter-bomber,
escort plane,
spy plane;
supersonic aircraft,
subsonic aircraft.
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