Beat to death with one's words

Usage examples of belabor.

I do not wish to belabor it or give undue reproof, but you cannot be called of position and character.

Miss Fitzpatrick her due, she did not belabor Eliza with disapproval once her niece was properly back inside the apartment and pointed toward the bed in the guest room.

Hannas were tired and slightly grumpy, then so were the Joneses -- long day, short tempers, why belabor the obvious?

You belabor it until any sound but the sound of that instrument is, to your ears, gelatinous babble.

I will not belabor the matter, except to point out that this lack of judiciousness wastes valuable time.

The scenario was familiar: VIPs visit from Washington, and the attention-starved assistant belabors the obvious.

Bloody and belabored, the woman was riven with a pike and pitched off the ramp to crash in the courtyard like a bag of laundry.

The bard and Eilonwy added a fury of blows, while Gurgi belabored the cauldron with an iron bar.

The ancient threw himself upon the ruffian, belaboring wildly with his cane.

Doges and the Bureaucrats fleeing the square, not without belaboring each other in the process, each blaming the other for the disaster.

Still, there seemed little point in belaboring her situation or bemoaning it either.

There should not be too fine a point, however, in belaboring differences with the other examples in this regard over standoff.

Europe and through the air as well, conquering everything in its path, my own affairs, which were restricted to the belaboring of lacquered toy drums, were in a bad way.

Belaboring the accumulated neuroses of twenty years would solve nothing.

At that point, the beastlet was again hurled flat on one side and Newgrass, who had had a few calves of her own, over the years, belabored him until there could be no question but that his shrieks and squeals were those of true and intense pain.