Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to belabour
Participle: belaboured
Gerund: belabouring
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | belabour |
| you | belabour |
| he;she;it | belabours |
| we | belabour |
| you | belabour |
| they | belabour |
Perfect
| I | have belaboured |
| you | have belaboured |
| he;she;it | has belaboured |
| we | have belaboured |
| you | have belaboured |
| they | have belaboured |
Past
| I | belaboured |
| you | belaboured |
| he;she;it | belaboured |
| we | belaboured |
| you | belaboured |
| they | belaboured |
Pluperfect
| I | had belaboured |
| you | had belaboured |
| he;she;it | had belaboured |
| we | had belaboured |
| you | had belaboured |
| they | had belaboured |
Future
| I | will belabour |
| you | will belabour |
| he;she;it | will belabour |
| we | will belabour |
| you | will belabour |
| they | will belabour |
Future Perfect
| I | will have belaboured |
| you | will have belaboured |
| he;she;it | will have belaboured |
| we | will have belaboured |
| you | will have belaboured |
| they | will have belaboured |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | belabour |
| you | belabour |
| he;she;it | belabour |
| we | belabour |
| you | belabour |
| they | belabour |
Perfect
| I | have belaboured |
| you | have belaboured |
| he;she;it | have belaboured |
| we | have belaboured |
| you | have belaboured |
| they | have belaboured |
Imperfect
| I | belaboured |
| you | belaboured |
| he;she;it | belaboured |
| we | belaboured |
| you | belaboured |
| they | belaboured |
Pluperfect
| I | had belaboured |
| you | had belaboured |
| he;she;it | had belaboured |
| we | had belaboured |
| you | had belaboured |
| they | had belaboured |
Conditional
Present
| I | would belabour |
| you | would belabour |
| he;she;it | would belabour |
| we | would belabour |
| you | would belabour |
| they | would belabour |
Perfect
| I | would have belaboured |
| you | would have belaboured |
| he;she;it | would have belaboured |
| we | would have belaboured |
| you | would have belaboured |
| they | would have belaboured |
Imperative
| you | belabour |
| we | Let's belabour |
| you | belabour |
Verbs conjugated like 'belabour'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'belabour'
belabor,
beclamour,
beglamour,
labour,
beblur,
beclamor,
becolour,
beglamor,
belaud,
belout,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From be- (“on, upon, about, over”) + labour. Compare bework, betoil, beswink.
Sample Sentences
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1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
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He saw the village; he was seen coming bending forward upon his horse, belabouring it with great blows, the girths dripping with blood.
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[F]ew country people there are who do not love to see two sturdy fellows thwack and belabour each other with quarter-staff, single-stick, or fists. [1881, Walter Besant, James Rice, “How Kitty First Saw the Doctor”, in The Chaplain of the Fleet […], volume I, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, part I (Within the Rules), page 82:]
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1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, inaugural speech
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Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belabouring those problems which divide us.
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And so, to belabour the school metaphor, diehard fans of both those fallen leaders resent this pair for snitching in class. [2023 August 8, Janan Ganesh, “The oneness of Ron DeSantis and Rishi Sunak”, in Financial Times:]