<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to explain, worry about, or work at (something) repeatedly or more than is necessary: He kept belaboring the point long after we had agreed.</li><li>to assail persistently, as with scorn or ridicule: a book that belabors the provincialism of his contemporaries.</li><li>to beat vigorously; ply with heavy blows.</li><li>Obsolete: to labor at.</li></ul>