BROWBEAT


Meaning of BROWBEAT in English

verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Clausen has been known to browbeat witnesses.

I really didn't want to make this speech -- I was browbeaten into it by my colleagues.

The miners were browbeaten into working in a part of the mine that the company knew to be dangerous.

The salesman tried browbeating me but it didn't work.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

After all, what sort of conspiracy is it when the victim has to browbeat his supposed aggressors into taking part?

And his bottom-of-the-table Forest side looked similarly browbeaten after slipping to their ninth defeat of the season.

And the man who did most of the begging, cajoling, and browbeating was Joseph Alsop.

But she wasn't going to let him browbeat her.

For a few moments she felt nineteen again, unsure and nervous, easily browbeaten because she had very little self-confidence.

He had joined the ship just as we sailed, somehow browbeating the mate into letting him board.

Hence, the commander had to beg, cajole, and browbeat authorities of three nations to get what he needed.

The only way was to browbeat them.

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