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bludgeon

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈblʌd͡ʒ.ən/Part of speech verb, nounSorted bdeglnouStarts with BEnds with N0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. strike with a club or a bludgeon

Word origin

First attested in 1730. Origin uncertain, perhaps of Cornish origin (recorded as blogon c. 1450) or from Middle French bougeon, a diminutive of bouge (“club, stick”).

Used in a sentence

  • We smashed the radio with a steel bludgeon.
  • The apprehended rioter was bludgeoned to death.
  • They didn't get shot to death in hold-ups, strangled to death in rapes, stabbed to death in saloons, bludgeoned to death with axes by parents or children or die summarily by some other act of God.

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