Browbeat

Quick meaning: Browbeat is a verb meaning (transitive) To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.

Meaning

(transitive) To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.

Example Sentences

Beware lest thy mind be swayed by the brow-beating of the Demons.

Though the teacher browbeat all the children, they still acted out during the lesson.

Autistics don’t need cognitive behavioral training to help us not be rules by our emotions. In fact, most of us have been browbeaten into ignoring our feelings too much.

Dudley Fitts reared far back, pronouncing her [Laura Riding] with “few equals” when it came to “browbeating an audience into conviction by sheer force of arrogance, among any poets living or dead.”

Word Forms

• browbeats
• browbeating
• browbeaten
• brow-beat

Synonyms for browbeat

Depending on context, synonyms include bully, cow, domineer, intimidate, buffalo, bulldoze.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hector, bully, bullyrag, ballyrag, strong-arm, swagger.

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