browbeaten

Meaning of browbeaten

verb, past participle
  1. intimidate (someone), typically into doing something, with stern or abusive words.
    a witness is being browbeaten under cross-examination

Information about browbeaten

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of browbeaten

brow-beaten

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
  • browbeaten is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

browbeaten synonyms

Meaning bullied:

bullied, cowed, hangdog, intimidated

Meaning seek to harm, intimidate, or coerce (someone perceived as vulnerable):

bully

Meaning talk to (someone) in a bullying way:

hector

Meaning frighten or overawe (someone), especially in order to make them do what one wants:

intimidate

Meaning make (someone) do something against their will:

force

Meaning persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats:

coerce

Meaning force or oblige (someone) to do something:

compel

Meaning repeatedly ask (someone) to do something; pester:

badger

Meaning coerce (someone) into doing something:

dragoon

Meaning a fully grown female animal of a domesticated breed of ox, kept to produce milk or beef:

cow

Meaning force or bully (someone) to do something:

bludgeon

Meaning subject (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs:

persecute

Meaning assert one's will over another in an arrogant way:

domineer

Meaning keep (someone) in subjection and hardship, especially by the unjust exercise of authority:

oppress

Meaning attempt to persuade or coerce (someone) into doing something:

pressure, pressurize

Meaning rule or treat (someone) despotically or cruelly:

tyrannize

Meaning create and maintain a state of extreme fear and distress in (someone); fill with terror:

terrorize

Meaning be a threat or possible danger to:

menace

Meaning bring under domination or control, especially by conquest:

subjugate

Meaning subject to aggressive pressure or intimidation:

harass

Meaning persistently carry out attacks on (an enemy or an enemy's territory):

harry

Meaning harass, persecute, or pursue relentlessly:

hound

Meaning harass (someone) constantly to do something that they are averse to:

nag

Meaning provoke or annoy (someone) so as to stimulate an action or reaction:

goad

Meaning use force insensitively when dealing with (someone or something):

bulldoze

Meaning rush or coerce (someone) into doing something:

railroad

Words that rhyme with browbeaten

Aten, Baten, beaten, bethreaten, drybeaten, eaten, engreaten, farebeaten, greaten, heaten, miseaten, neaten, outeaten, outthreaten, overbeaten, overeaten, prethreaten, rethreaten, sunbeaten, threaten, unbeaten, underbeaten, undereaten, uneaten, weatherbeaten, wheaten, Tutankhaten, whaten, Pallaten, laten, platen, somaten, Akhenaten, Boaten, oaten, Paten, paten, Sauerbraten, lambraten, sauerbraten, Staten, quintaten, tenstaten

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