belabor (v.)
- accent
- accentuate
- baste
- bastinado
- batter
- beat
- belt
- birch
- buffet
- cane
- club
- cowhide
- cudgel
- cut
- drub
- emphasize
- flagellate
- flail
- flog
- fustigate
- highlight
- horsewhip
- italicize
- labor
- lace
- lambaste
- lash
- overemphasize
- overstress
- pelt
- pistol-whip
- pommel
- pound
- pummel
- punctuate
- scourge
- smite
- spank
- spotlight
- star
- strap
- stress
- stripe
- swinge
- switch
- thrash
- thump
- trounce
- underline
- underscore
- wallop
- whale
- whip
- whop