Meaning & use
Belaboring
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Discussing, arguing, or explaining a point in excessive or tedious detail, especially one that has already been understood.
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Stop belaboring the point — we already agreed to your plan.
The lawyer risked losing the jury by belaboring minor details of the timeline.
A note on using this word
"Belaboring" once referred literally to beating someone with blows; its modern sense of "hammering" a point rhetorically preserves that original image of repeated, forceful strikes.
Words with a similar meaning
dwelling onoverexplaining
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Words with an opposite meaning
summarizingglossing over
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