BROWBEAT - 8 definitions found
browbeat v 1: be bossy towards; "Her big brother always bullied her when she was young" [syn: strong-arm, bully, browbeat, bullyrag, ballyrag, boss around, hector, push around}] 2: discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate [syn: browbeat, bully, swagger] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) browbeat transitive verb (browbeat; browbeaten or -beat; -beating) Date: 1581 to intimidate or disconcert by a stern manner or arrogant speech ; bully Synonyms: see intimidate Oxford English Reference Dictionary
English Explanatory Dictionary browbeat ˈbraubi:t v.tr. (past -beat; past part. -beaten) intimidate with stern looks and words. øøbrowbeater n. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Browbeat \Brow"beat`\, v. t. [imp. Browbeat; p. p. Browbeaten; p. pr. & vb. n. Browbeating.] To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses. My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten. --W. Irving. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms browbeat v. a. Bully, overbear, beat down, treat insolently. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) browbeat ˈbraubi:t v. bully, intimidate, threaten, badger, dominate, cow, frighten, discourage, tyrannize, hector, harass, keep after, nag, Colloq hassle: The foreman constantly browbeat anyone who wasn't one of his drinking cronies. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 61 Moby Thesaurus words for "browbeat": badger, beat down, bludgeon, bluster, bluster out of, bounce, break, bulldoze, bully, bullyrag, castrate, clamp down on, coerce, compel, cow, daunt, demoralize, despotize, discourage, dominate, domineer, domineer over, dragoon, enslave, frighten, grind, grind down, harass, hassle, hector, henpeck, huff, intimidate, keep down, keep under, lord it over, nag, oppress, overawe, overbear, overmaster, override, press heavy on, repress, ride over, ride roughshod over, subjugate, suppress, systematically terrorize, terrorize, threaten, trample down, trample upon, tread down, tread upon, tyrannize, tyrannize over, unman, walk all over, walk over, weigh heavy on |
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