Antonyms for browbeaten

Grammar : Verb

Spell : brou-beet

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbraʊˌbit

Definition of browbeaten

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 :

Let us, therefore, not be browbeaten by civilization on account of its antiquity.
Extract from : « Is civilization a disease? » by Stanton Coit

He had learned that the students would not be browbeaten or bullied.
Extract from : « Breaking Away » by Oliver Optic

From that time forth it was recognized that he was not the sort of man to be browbeaten.
Extract from : « Stories of Authors, British and American » by Edwin Watts Chubb

He was not one to be browbeaten or cheated, and he resolved to fight out the battle.
Extract from : « Tom, The Bootblack » by Horatio Alger

She was a haughty old dame, but she was browbeaten by her maid.
Extract from : « Mistress Anne » by Temple Bailey

We can show him that boy scouts are not to be trifled with and browbeaten.
Extract from : « Roy Blakeley's Silver Fox Patrol » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Why should he be browbeaten into communicating his private affairs to a stranger?
Extract from : « Rose Charlitte » by Marshall Saunders

I asked if these shackled and browbeaten prisoners were Christians.
Extract from : « Eastern Nights - and Flights » by Alan Bott

"She says she does," said Jack, determined not to be browbeaten by this man's force.
Extract from : « Geoffrey Hampstead » by Thomas Stinson Jarvis

I had been browbeaten and humiliated and would make my triumph complete.
Extract from : « The Tent Dwellers » by Albert Bigelow Paine

Synonyms for browbeaten

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