Crossword-Solution: BELABORED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Belabored | imp. & p. p. | of Belabor |
We have 7 clues for the answer “BELABORED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Assailed at length | 1 answer |
| Bartok yawning? | 1 answer |
| Overworked, as a point | 1 answer |
| Repeated too often, as a point | 1 answer |
| Discussed at length | 3 answers |
| Beat a dead horse | 4 answers |
| Harped (on) | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EACMZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with BELABORED (5)
The Lion and the Bear saw him, but not being able to get up, said, “Woe be to us, that we should have fought and belabored ourselves only to serve the turn of a Fox.” It sometimes happens that one man has all the toil, and another all the profit.
The Indians of San Francisco were as immedicable as they were hideous; but the fathers belabored them with sticks and heaven with prayer, and had so far succeeded that if as yet they had sown piety no higher than the knees, they had trained some twelve hundred pairs of hands to useful service.
Many a time have I belabored stubborn mules and bestrode bucking mustangs while searching for one of these ungrateful but no doubt chosen creatures.
Such pounding and expounding the moment he began to grow warm, such slapping with his open palm, thumping with his closed fist, and banging with the whole weight of the great Bible, convinced me that he held, in imagination, either the Old Nick or some Unitarian infidel at bay, and belabored his unhappy cushion as proxy for those abominable adversaries.
This poor fellow whom thou hast so belabored is counted the best hand at the quarterstaff in all merry England.
Quotes with BELABORED (3)
Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!
Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a veteran of many auditions, says. "Other people look awful when they play but sound great. Other people have that belabored look when they play, but you can't hear it in the sound. There is always this dissonance between what you see and hear" (p.251).
The age-old, seemingly inexorable process whereby diseases acquire meanings (by coming to stand for the deepest fears) and inflict stigma is always worth challenging, and it does seem to have more limited credibility in the modern world, among people willing to be modern - the process is under surveillance now. With this illness, one that elicits so much guilt and shame, the effort to detach it from these meanings, these metaphors, seems particularly liberating, even consolin…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1971–2020).