browbeat
Meaning of browbeat
verb
- intimidate (someone), typically into doing something, with stern or abusive words.
a witness is being browbeaten under cross-examination
Information about browbeat
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of browbeat is: browbeats.
- Languages in which browbeat is used:
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Hyphenation of browbeat
brow-beat
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- browbeat is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
browbeat synonyms
Meaning strong-arm:
bully, bullyrag, ballyrag, hector
Meaning bully:
Meaning frighten or overawe (someone), especially in order to make them do what one wants:
Meaning make (someone) do something against their will:
Meaning persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats:
Meaning force or oblige (someone) to do something:
Meaning repeatedly ask (someone) to do something; pester:
Meaning coerce (someone) into doing something:
Meaning a fully grown female animal of a domesticated breed of ox, kept to produce milk or beef:
Meaning force or bully (someone) to do something:
Meaning subject (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs:
Meaning assert one's will over another in an arrogant way:
Meaning keep (someone) in subjection and hardship, especially by the unjust exercise of authority:
Meaning attempt to persuade or coerce (someone) into doing something:
Meaning rule or treat (someone) despotically or cruelly:
Meaning create and maintain a state of extreme fear and distress in (someone); fill with terror:
Meaning be a threat or possible danger to:
Meaning bring under domination or control, especially by conquest:
Meaning subject to aggressive pressure or intimidation:
Meaning persistently carry out attacks on (an enemy or an enemy's territory):
Meaning harass, persecute, or pursue relentlessly:
Meaning harass (someone) constantly to do something that they are averse to:
Meaning provoke or annoy (someone) so as to stimulate an action or reaction:
Meaning use force insensitively when dealing with (someone or something):
Meaning rush or coerce (someone) into doing something:
Translation of browbeat
- Italian: intimorire, intimidire, tiranneggiare
- French: tyranniser, persécuter
Words that rhyme with browbeat
Beat, beat, bloodbeat, deadbeat, bluebeat, farebeat, pulsebeat, rebeat, hoofbeat, offbeat, swingbeat, wingbeat, backbeat, breakbeat, drumbeat, burnbeat, downbeat, sunbeat, upbeat, afterbeat, overbeat, underbeat, newsbeat, footbeat, heartbeat, drybeat
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