Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - browbeat
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Browbeat
browbeat
(browbeats, browbeating, browbeaten) Note: The form 'browbeat' is used in the present tense and is also the past tense. If someone tries to browbeat you, they try to force you to do what they want. ...attempts to deceive, con, or browbeat the voters... When I backed out of the 100 metres, an older kid tried to browbeat me into it. VERB: V n, V n into n • browbeaten ...the browbeaten employees. ADJ
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1.
transitive verb (~; ~en or -beat; -beating) Date: 1581 to intimidate or disconcert by a stern manner or arrogant speech ; bully Synonyms: see intimidate ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
v.tr. (past -beat; past part. -beaten) intimidate with stern looks and words. Derivatives browbeater n. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. запугивать; отпугивать; нагонять страх he was browbeaten and threatened —- его запугивали, ему угрожали to browbeat into doing smth. —- угрозами заставить сделать что-л. ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
4.
~ v past tense browbeatpast participle browbeaten, T + into to make someone do something by continuously asking them to, especially in an unpleasant threatening way (The witness was being browbeaten under cross-examination.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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