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belabor

verbCommon GRE wordMore B words

to discuss or insist on something for an excessive length of time

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Belabor in a sentence

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There is no need to belabor a point everyone already accepts.

Synonyms
overstatedwell onharp onlabor
Antonyms
skimgloss over

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The professor's lectures were notoriously blank; students often left more puzzled than when they had arrived, unable to follow his tangled chains of reasoning.

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Belabor (verb) means to discuss or insist on something for an excessive length of time
Here is belabor used in an example sentence: "There is no need to belabor a point everyone already accepts."
Common synonyms for belabor include overstate, dwell on, harp on, labor.
Antonyms of belabor include skim, gloss over.
Belabor is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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