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Word | Belabor |
belabor the obvious / beat soundly / To ply diligently / explain or go over excessively or to a riduculous degree; assail verbally / argue or elaborate (a subject) in excessive detail. / to talk about (something) for too long : to repeat or stress (something) too much or too often / to attack or criticize (someone), | |
Usage | ⇒ The debate coach warned her student not to bore the audience by belaboring his point. ⇒ Her habit of belaboring the obvious makes her a very boring speaker. ⇒ critics thought they belabored the obvious |
Synonyms | baste, beat, belabour, buffet, batter, drub, thrash, lambaste, lash, pelt, pound, strike, thresh, bang, bastinado, flog, give the stick, pummel, thump, trounce, |
Antonyms | abbreviate, burn, can, cease, cut, dilute, dismiss, disobey, drop, edit, fail, flout, foreshorten, forget, ignore, omit, overlook, overrule, shun, slew, |
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