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Word entry · 8 letters

browbeat

Best crossword clue

"Intimidate with words"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈbɹaʊ.biːt/Part of speech verbSorted abbeortwStarts with BEnds with T1 clues
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Definitions

  1. discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate

Word origin

From brow + beat.

Used in a sentence

  • Though the teacher browbeat all the children, they still acted out during the lesson.
  • Beware lest thy mind be swayed by the brow-beating of the Demons.
  • Dudley Fitts reared far back, pronouncing her [Laura Riding] with “few equals” when it came to “browbeating an audience into conviction by sheer force of arrogance, among any poets living or dead.”

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