to browbeat
9
8.1
- verb
- /ˈbraʊˌbit/
:
intimidar
- But I don't want him to browbeat me.
They need to start browbeating their sane Republican counterparts.
- They need to start browbeating their sane Republican counterparts.
- And these are the same yahoos that sat and browbeat President Zelensky over his outfit.
- But the, the, the thing I didn't do is make this my life and just browbeat people with one message or another.
- So I think, I think LA sort of browbeats folks, you know, into that kind of that kind of path I think.
Examples
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At another time, he thought that I was lying, although I wasn't, and he browbeat me into tears over that.
Academic text (1997) -
And we'll sit there and browbeat ourselves into oblivion.
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Do you mean you have to browbeat someone to get a rehearsal out of them?
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So long as he does not try to browbeat everyone else into thinking as he does, he is harmless enough.
Academic text (1995) -
The only pleasure left to him was to pretend to side with the weak and browbeat anyone who had reason to feel guilty.
Fiction book (1996) -
But attempts to browbeat artists using the national culture as an excuse are a different matter altogether.
Blog text (29) -
While your point of view is well known, you do not browbeat the reader into taking your exact stance.
Blog text (27) -
We come over here to work things out with them, and they insult us, they browbeat us, they lecture us about being good citizens of the planet.
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Yet, sporadic cases of the government browbeating the press continue, and the struggle for freedom of speech can be observed even today.
Academic text (2017) -
The coach tried to browbeat the players into training harder by using harsh words.
Synonyms
302
4.0
Annoy someone again and again to make them feel worried or uncomfortable
68
3.8
To scare or hurt someone, often someone weaker
66
5.6
To treat someone in a bossy way so they do what you want
37
4.5
Tell people what to do in a rude way when you have no right
15
7.5
To force someone to do something by threats or violence
6
8.2
To force someone to do something by threats or strong pressure
3
8.4
To be bossy and scare someone into doing what you want
1
9.7
To force someone to do something by threats or strong pressure
1
7.5
To try to frighten someone by behaving in a threatening way
1
8.3
Make someone accept ideas or opinions they do not want by pressuring them
To frighten or shout at someone to make them do what you want
Make someone feel bad by bossing or bullying them
How Intimidating
- NSFW
145
6.7
- Offensive
91
6.4
9
8.1
294
4.9
149
4.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word browbeat comes from brow ('eyebrow') and beat ('to hit'). Imagine someone using a hard look to 'hit' or frighten another person, and that's why to browbeat someone is to intimidate or bully them.