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Synonyms for browbeat

Grammar : Verb
Spell : brou-beet
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbraʊˌbit

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Définition 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

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