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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of belabor.

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Examples

  • A woman whose mother was a Christian Scientist recalls the belabored feeding her family undertook to maintain their health: fasts, cleanses, fermentation and raw food, hydrogen peroxide from the bottle, apple-cider vinegar, barley grass.

    It’s Not Just White Girls 2008

  • I see it as a good example of meaningless, puffed-up verbiage intended to convey the impression of eloquence or significance; but perhaps it is also an example of a kind of belabored delicacy: it's as if the author is saying "there is a group which certain people of interest belong to, but I will preserve them by claiming an indeterminate quantity for censure".

    languagehat.com: SOME OF WHOM HAVING. 2004

  • I hate to toss out what I'm sure is a belabored question, but with regard to safety --- this route is ok?

    Road Trip From Mazamitla to Patzcuaro 2009

  • (Not necessarily belabored or overly "academic" exegesis but some "close reading" with a lighter touch.)

    The Biographical Fallacy 2009

  • I hate to toss out what I'm sure is a belabored question, but with regard to safety --- this route is ok?

    Road Trip From Mazamitla to Patzcuaro 2009

  • I hate to toss out what I'm sure is a belabored question, but with regard to safety --- this route is ok?

    Road Trip From Mazamitla to Patzcuaro 2009

  • The GOP belabored the racist topic for three days and it left them looking like a big dirty sac

    Leahy on Sotomayor: 'Stop the racial politics' 2009

  • Walking with Neglect is so belabored and choppy, requiring miles of effort to drag myself a few miserable feet.

    Left Neglected Lisa Genova 2011

  • The English learned from the French, however, building square stockades with corner bastions and crude barracks and storehouses, the men sleeping in pairs or trios head-to-foot, belabored by bedbugs, fleas, flies, ticks, and lice.2

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • I responded to your opening post, which belabored a trivial point.

    A Q&A Relevant to Catastrophyism 2010

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