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Definition of Browbeating

Browbeating
Browbeat Brow"beat`, v. t. [imp. Browbeat; p. p. Browbeaten; p. pr. & vb. n. Browbeating.] 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. My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten. --W. Irving.

Meaning of Browbeating from wikipedia

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- although he felt his ministers had taken advantage of his inexperience to browbeat him. After the December 1910 general election, the Lords let the bill p****...
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- Williams of NME wrote, "With a little more self-censorship and less browbeating we'd be looking at one of the albums of the year," awarding the record...
- determination of a zealot, the drive of a fanatic, and the ability to convince or browbeat weaker persons by his singleness of purpose, imposing intensity, impersonal...
- During the making of Rio Grande he defied Ford, who was notorious for browbeating his actors, and reportedly told him to go to ****. Johnson thought the...
- him without sympathy for his physical or mental situation, mercilessly browbeating him when he even mentions retiring. He is injured during a game and is...
- Bulgarian delegation, where Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov attempted to browbeat them into accepting Soviet control over the merger between the countries...
- impressed for the first time by Bob standing up to his wife, and then browbeats Abishola to be more subservient to her husband. Title quotation from:...