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Definition of belabor : 1. To beat soundly; to cudgel.
2. To ply diligently; to work carefully upon.

Synonyms:

surpass, run into the ground, clobber, harp on, bruise, buffet, emphasize, flog, batter, pommel, assail, hammer, thresh, chastise, whip, lambaste, scourge, smite, attack, pound, assault, overcome, thrash, worst, pummel, strike, belabour, spank, cudgel, beat, smash, baste, rain blows on, switch, bastinado, castigate, repeat, conquer, defeat, vanquish, drub, overemphasize

Usage examples:

• At the sound of the hoofs behind him, the driver suddenly awoke and began to belabor and kick his animals; he seemed oblivious of another cart that came toward him, and of a third that hurried after him from underneath the gate. - "Winds of the World", Talbot Mundy.
• Later in the evening, but while it still was moonlight, the boy descended from his seat and ran forward to belabor the first spans of oxen. - "Real Soldiers of Fortune", Richard Harding Davis.
• Like lubberly monks, we belabor our own shoulders, and take a vast satisfaction in the music of our own groans. - "Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete", Washington Irving.