browbeat

• brow-beat

From brow +‎ beat.

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹaʊ.biːt/

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browbeat (third-person singular simple present browbeats, present participle browbeating, simple past browbeat, past participle browbeaten)

1. (transitive) To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.

   Synonyms: bully, cow, domineer, intimidate; see also Thesaurus:intimidate

   Though the teacher browbeat all the children, they still acted out during the lesson.

   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 26:

     Beware lest thy mind be swayed by the brow-beating of the Demons.

   • 1993 November 28, Carol Muske, quoting Dudley Fitts, “Laura Riding Roughshod”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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.”

• browbeater

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “browbeat”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “browbeat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.