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browbeat

verb
/ˈbɹaʊ.biːt/UK

Etymology

From brow + beat.

  1. derived from *bautaną✻ — “to push, strike”
  2. derived from *bautan✻
  3. derived from bēatan — “to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”
  4. inherited from beten
  5. compounded as browbeat — “brow + beat”

Definitions

  1. 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.”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA