I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
death
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She had been bludgeoned to death with a champagne bottle by her husband David, 48, who then killed himself.
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They shot or bludgeoned to death numerous others in separate incidents.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ruddock had been bludgeoned to death in his beach-side home.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After an hour our man was still bludgeoning away.
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Instead of being coerced or bludgeoned into submission, the Celtic Church was simply subsumed.
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It came forward with these proposals, and it has attempted to bludgeon them through the House.
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On the other hand, by refraining from identifying himself he risked being bludgeoned or arrested.
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She is deeply angry about this and her approach is to bludgeon the tar out of him.
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There they bludgeoned him with clubs and guns and left him for dead.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The other is the old bludgeon of robber barons, industry consolidation.