belabor, belabour
(verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism; “She was belabored by her fellow students”
belabour, belabor
(verb) beat soundly
belabor, belabour
(verb) to work at or to absurd length; “belabor the obvious”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
belabor (third-person singular simple present belabors, present participle belaboring, simple past and past participle belabored)
United States alternative spelling of belabour.
• borable
Source: Wiktionary
Be*la"bor, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belabored; p. pr. & vb. n. Belaboring.]
1. To ply diligently; to work carefully upon. "If the earth is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn." Barrow.
2. To beat soundly; to cudgel. Ajax belabors there a harmless ox. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 December 2024
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
