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Definition of Belabored
1. belabor [v] - See also: belabor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Belabored
Literary usage of Belabored
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1892)
"... having witnessed his intrusion, set upon him with their pack-staves, and so
belabored him that they laid him along on the ground in wretched plight. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"In like manner that tremendous old giant, who sits at Rome, has been so belabored
by the nimble little men of intellect, who have been hitting him such ..."
3. Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education by National Society for the Study of Education (1908)
"The pupil should not be belabored into mathematical processes any more than he
should be belabored into words in his reading. In the latter subject the ..."
4. The Life of Whitelaw Reid by Royal Cortissoz (1921)
"They belabored Harrison with warnings as to his "holding second place," just as
the small-minded gentry had belabored Garfield eight years before. ..."
5. Buddhist Legends by Buddhaghoṣa (1921)
"... sees a ghost belabored about the head with sledgehammers. The Buddha relates
the following 13 a. Story of the Past: The stone-thrower and his pupil. ..."
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