Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To intimidate or subjugate by an overbearing manner or domineering speech; bully. synonym: intimidate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; in general, to bear down by impudence.
- Synonyms To overbear, insult, bully, hector.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
bully in anintimidating ,bossy , orsupercilious way.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be bossy towards
- verb discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate
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Examples
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Miami, is attempting "browbeat" deep-pocketed targets in the media in an attempt to force settlements in the RRA bankruptcy.
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Miami, is attempting "browbeat" deep-pocketed targets in the media in an attempt to force settlements in the RRA bankruptcy.
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Miami, is attempting "browbeat" deep-pocketed targets in the media in an attempt to force settlements in the RRA bankruptcy.
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Miami, is attempting "browbeat" deep-pocketed targets in the media in an attempt to force settlements in the RRA bankruptcy.
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Tony Woodley, joint leader of Unite, also mounted another attack on the company for trying to "browbeat" its staff into accepting worse pay and conditions.
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Spitzer thought the voters had given him a mandate to deliver his agenda, and he tried quickly and publicly to browbeat the legislature into submission.
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They browbeat my sister to order my execution, virtually to the moment of her final breath.
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They “browbeat and discouraged” the militia and presented “an example of all manner of debauchery, vice, and idleness when they lie skulking in forts,” while the country was “ravaged in their very neighborhood.”
treeseed commented on the word browbeat
Browbeat "to bully" is first recorded 1581, originally "to bear down with stern or arrogant looks."
_Online Etmology Dictionary
February 28, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word browbeat
US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906: Railroad telegraph shorthand for "No chance for business on this basis".
January 21, 2013