Bludgeon

/ˈblʌd͡ʒ.ən/ · noun

Meaning

A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end..

Definitions by Sense

1. A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.
2. (transitive) To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.
3. (transitive) To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.

Example Sentences

We smashed the radio with a steel bludgeon.

The apprehended rioter was bludgeoned to death.

They didn't get shot to death in hold-ups, strangled to death in rapes, stabbed to death in saloons, bludgeoned to death with axes by parents or children or die summarily by some other act of God.

Thomas Briggs, a senior bank clerk in the City, lived in Hackney, and on 9 July 1864 he was returning there by train from Fenchurch Street after a Saturday spent at work when he was bludgeoned to death in a first-class carriage, probably by a young German tailor named Franz Müller. (Let's hope it was Müller, because he was hanged for it.) And so Briggs was an all-round pioneer: an early commuter and the very first victim of a railway murder.

Their favorite method was bludgeoning us with the same old arguments in favor of their opinions.

Gianna Parasini: You've never worked in the corporate world, have you, Commander? You can't bludgeon through bureaucracy. Shepard: I can bludgeon pretty hard.

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• bludgeons
• bludgeoning
• bludgeoned

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