verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Clausen has been known to browbeat witnesses.
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I really didn't want to make this speech -- I was browbeaten into it by my colleagues.
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The miners were browbeaten into working in a part of the mine that the company knew to be dangerous.
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The salesman tried browbeating me but it didn't work.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After all, what sort of conspiracy is it when the victim has to browbeat his supposed aggressors into taking part?
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And his bottom-of-the-table Forest side looked similarly browbeaten after slipping to their ninth defeat of the season.
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And the man who did most of the begging, cajoling, and browbeating was Joseph Alsop.
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But she wasn't going to let him browbeat her.
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For a few moments she felt nineteen again, unsure and nervous, easily browbeaten because she had very little self-confidence.
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He had joined the ship just as we sailed, somehow browbeating the mate into letting him board.
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Hence, the commander had to beg, cajole, and browbeat authorities of three nations to get what he needed.
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The only way was to browbeat them.