Crossword clues for belabored
belabored
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Belabor \Be*la"bor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belabored; p. pr. & vb. n. Belaboring.]
To ply diligently; to work carefully upon. ``If the earth is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn.''
--Barrow.-
To beat soundly; to cudgel.
Ajax belabors there a harmless ox.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: belabor)
Usage examples of "belabored".
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.
It was hard work to do this, she plunged so, and so beat and belabored the billows with her rising and falling bows.
Through the clangorous dance of thrust and parry, he resumed his belabored dialogue.
Neither spellbinder nor Sorcerer belabored the tragedy, that if Traithe's faculties were still whole, or if this crisis had been met by any other member of the Fellowship, Felirin's disfigurement might be ameliorated.
Unable to separate which suffer ing was his, and which the ripped pulse of the world's discord, Asandir belabored the frayed rags of discipline to recoup a sure hold on his faculties.
The latter, however, was not a man to be quelled by words, for he caught up his ell-measure sword-sheath and belabored the cursing clerk with it.
The big bronze man was turned over, kicked a few times, and soundly belabored.
Those who stayed and attempted to fight fell prey to Shiki's catapult, or were belabored by the demon-controlled torches and their fur and garments set afire.
They beheld Har-Chissa lying dead, and the terrorized Aliansa belabored by a torch-wielding invisible presence.