belabor

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Quick as thought the doctor now whisks the leaves away with the ghosts in them; he belabours them with a cudgel, he hangs them up in the smoke, or he throws them into the fire.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir

Little instructions shall you have though great store of doctrines and many uses to small purpose; he putts much zeale into his booke, and belabours his tongue exceedingly.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John

So when they apparently act on the Governor's view of Mrs. Pitt, he turns round and belabours them.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose

A church is more fantastic to me than the room in which Punch belabours Judy.

From The Woman with the Fan by Hichens, Robert Smythe

Strike up cymbals, gongs, and tabours, Clarions, double-flutes, and drums; All that bellows, or belabours, In a surging discord comes.

From Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)