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Synonyms for browbeaten

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

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Définition 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

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