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- noun Plural form of
bludgeon . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
bludgeon .
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Examples
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He smashes the window of her car, bludgeons her with a mallet and drags her back to his car.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: I Saw the Devil Marshall Fine 2011
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All this signal processing bludgeons physics as we know it into quivering submission.
Jeep's Great Big Beast of Solid Grace Dan Neil 2011
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Divisions of class, religion, and generation are all brought to painful and very personal life: through Umrigar's characters we see the individual burdens and costs borne by abstract bludgeons of denigration and denial, along with the guilt and excuses brought on by material comfort and success.
Nina Sankovitch: Discovering The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar Nina Sankovitch 2012
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Like Thor's hammer, this ersatz epic bludgeons its victims into submission.
'Thor': A Vehicle of Low Norsepower Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Divisions of class, religion, and generation are all brought to painful and very personal life: through Umrigar's characters we see the individual burdens and costs borne by abstract bludgeons of denigration and denial, along with the guilt and excuses brought on by material comfort and success.
Nina Sankovitch: Discovering The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar Nina Sankovitch 2012
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In practice, they are often used a political bludgeons against an opposing party, particularly by a partisan minority, and then discarded once power is gained.
Alexander Howard: Open Government Data Earns Bipartisan Congressional Support in Washington Alexander Howard 2011
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Since it would take a long time to beat somebody reasonably fit, like Grace Kelly, to death with a mobile phone, the murderer tries to do it with a portable shredder, but she bludgeons him with her iPad.
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When Thomas bludgeons to death a helpless dog at the halfway mark, it's all too easy to spot where the story is headed.
Michael Giltz: Theater: John Hurt and Cillian Murphy Go Solo In New Plays Michael Giltz 2011
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In practice, they are often used a political bludgeons against an opposing party, particularly by a partisan minority, and then discarded once power is gained.
Alexander Howard: Open Government Data Earns Bipartisan Congressional Support in Washington Alexander Howard 2011
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Unfortunately, while they are recreating their first lovemaking in the dunes, he naked and she naked from the waist down, they are attacked by a deranged homeless man who bludgeons them to death with a rock.
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