Belabor
Etymology
From the intensifying prefix “be-” and “labor,” to work. The older, literal meaning was to beat or thrash someone soundly. That sense of pummeling survives in the modern figurative use: to belabor a point is to keep hitting it after it has gone down.
verb · /bih-LAY-ber/
To keep working over a point long past the moment it was understood.
What it names
The specific fault of overexplaining — the exhausting repetition of something already granted.
Example
I won’t belabor the risks — you’ve all read the report and you know where I stand.
Related idea
To belabor is to overwork a point; to broach it is merely to raise it. The good speaker broaches many things and belabors none.
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