To browbeat is to intimidate with language. Picture yourself in a police station. The cops are trying to get you to talk by using tough, even abusive, language. They are browbeating you.
To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully;
Verb
discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate
Verb
be bossy towards; "Her big brother always bullied her when she was young"
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of Browbeat
v. t.
To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or
with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by
impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat
witnesses.
Browbeat
My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten.
To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully;
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