Antonyms for browbeat

Grammar : Verb

Spell : brou-beet

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbraʊˌbit

Definition of browbeat

Origin : "to bully," originally "to bear down with stern or arrogant looks," 1580s, from brow + beat (v.).
[I]t appears from the earliest quotations ... that the brow in question was that of the beater, not of the beaten party; but it is not evident whether the meaning was 'to beat with one's (frowning) brows,' or 'to beat (?lower) one's brows at.' [OED]
Related: Browbeaten; browbeating.

verb castigate, nag

Example sentences :

Can he courteously talk to an equal, and browbeat an impudent dunce?
Extract from : « Farm Ballads » by Will Carleton

Still, he said, it was a mistake for a man to allow events to browbeat him.
Extract from : « Dwellers in the Hills » by Melville Davisson Post

I have to browbeat, bribe, blackmail and bulldoze you thugs into doing a simple job.
Extract from : « The Repairman » by Harry Harrison

I'm not here to browbeat you, Mr. Worthington, or lie to you.
Extract from : « The White Desert » by Courtney Ryley Cooper

Wolsey had raised a storm in 1523 by trying to browbeat the House of Commons.
Extract from : « Henry VIII. » by A. F. Pollard

He cross-questioned the witnesses, and did his best to browbeat Peverell.
Extract from : « Up the River » by Oliver Optic

You mustn't think you can browbeat these boys, because you can't.
Extract from : « Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

And he could not frighten or browbeat or shake anything out of him.
Extract from : « Tom Slade on a Transport » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Crosby was her property, to browbeat and maltreat as seemed best to her.
Extract from : « The Madigans » by Miriam Michelson

The bar and the bench united to browbeat the unfortunate Whig.
Extract from : « The History of England from the Accession of James II. » by Thomas Babington Macaulay

Synonyms for browbeat

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