bullies
Meaning of bullies
- a person who habitually seeks to harm or intimidate those whom they perceive as vulnerable.
he is a ranting, domineering bully
- seek to harm, intimidate, or coerce (someone perceived as vulnerable).
her 11- year-old son has been constantly bullied at school
a local man was bullied into helping them
mid 16th century: probably from Middle Dutch boele ‘lover’. Original use was as a term of endearment applied to either sex; it later became a familiar form of address to a male friend. The current sense dates from the late 17th century.
plural noun
an act of starting play in field hockey, in which two opponents strike each other's sticks three times and then go for the ball.
verb, 3rd person present
(in field hockey) start play with a bully.
late 19th century (originally denoting a scrum in Eton football): of unknown origin.
Information about bullies
- The singular form of bullies is: bully.
- Languages in which bullies is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of bullies
bul-lies
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- bullies is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
bullies synonyms
Meaning a person who persecutes someone, especially for their race or political or religious beliefs:
Meaning a person or group that oppresses people:
Meaning a person exercising power or control in a cruel, unreasonable, or arbitrary way:
Meaning a person who inflicts severe mental or physical suffering on someone:
Meaning a person who frightens or overawes someone, especially in order to make them do something:
Meaning a whip used as an instrument of punishment:
Meaning a rough and violent man:
Meaning a thing, such as a vehicle, that is large or heavy of its kind:
Meaning a violent person, especially one involved in crime:
Meaning a violent person, especially a criminal:
Meaning a tough, uncompromising, or intimidating person:
Meaning harass or annoy (someone) persistently:
Meaning keep (someone) in subjection and hardship, especially by the unjust exercise of authority:
Meaning rule or treat (someone) despotically or cruelly:
Meaning annoy or provoke in an unkind way:
Meaning intimidate (someone), typically into doing something, with stern or abusive words:
Meaning frighten or overawe (someone), especially in order to make them do what one wants:
Meaning a fully grown female animal of a domesticated breed of ox, kept to produce milk or beef:
Meaning persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats:
Meaning bring under domination or control, especially by conquest:
Meaning assert one's will over another in an arrogant way:
Meaning attempt to persuade or coerce (someone) into doing something:
Meaning compel or force (someone) to follow a particular course of action:
Meaning move or cause to move into a position of contact with something by exerting continuous physical force:
Meaning exert force on (someone or something) in order to move them away from oneself:
Meaning make (someone) do something against their will:
Meaning force or oblige (someone) to do something:
Meaning make (someone) legally or morally bound to do something:
Meaning harass, persecute, or pursue relentlessly:
Meaning subject to aggressive pressure or intimidation:
Meaning harass (someone) constantly to do something that they are averse to:
Meaning persistently carry out attacks on (an enemy or an enemy's territory):
Meaning repeatedly ask (someone) to do something; pester:
Meaning provoke or annoy (someone) so as to stimulate an action or reaction:
Meaning poke with a finger, foot, or pointed object:
Meaning trouble or annoy (someone) with frequent or persistent requests or interruptions:
Meaning pressurize (someone) into adopting radically different beliefs by using systematic and often forcible means:
Meaning force or bully (someone) to do something:
Meaning induce (someone) to do something through reasoning or argument:
Meaning have an influence on:
Meaning coerce (someone) into doing something:
Meaning a gambling card game in which players try to acquire cards with a face value totalling 21 and no more:
Meaning use force insensitively when dealing with (someone or something):
Meaning rush or coerce (someone) into doing something:
Meaning (with reference to an object, especially a ball) move quickly up, back, or away from a surface after hitting it:
Meaning push roughly; jostle:
Words that rhyme with bullies
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