Definition of "belaboured" [belaboured]

• Simple past tense and past participle of belabour. (verb)

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• ""belaboured" Froude, with all the violence of which he was capable, in The Contemporary Review."
• "Where x is directly proportional to the reasonableness of a listener and N represents a number of points of evidence required to convince that listener satisfyingly, N - x represents a lower threshold beneath which the explanation is deemed insufficient while N + x represents a higher threshold above which the explanation is deemed belaboured."
• "Mind you, if Wright were to injure a fingernail in a sad Subbuteo accident, then the ICC might just have to act.2nd over: England 8-2 Trott 3, Bell 0 So we don't get to see Steyn v Pietersen, which was one of the highlights of the World Twenty20, when Pietersen belaboured 23 from 8 balls."