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/ˈbɹaʊ.biːt/ · verb
(transitive) To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way..
Though the teacher browbeat all the children, they still acted out during the lesson.
Beware lest thy mind be swayed by the brow-beating of the Demons.
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.”
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.
Use browbeat when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Browbeat means (transitive) To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way..
Common synonyms include bully, cow, domineer, intimidate.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Though the teacher browbeat all the children, they still acted out during the lesson.
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