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What does browbeat mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word browbeat? Here's what it means.

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  1. (transitive) To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.
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I have to browbeat, bribe, blackmail and bulldoze you thugs into doing a simple job.
He impressed me then, as he does now, as someone who prefers to browbeat opponents rather than reason with them.
Wolsey had raised a storm in 1523 by trying to browbeat the House of Commons.
Don't let politicians or the media browbeat you, intimidate you or lie about you.
Not surprisingly, departmental inquiries inevitably favor the offenders and browbeat women into abandoning their complaints, say social workers.
It seems that they are cracking down on just about any kind of protest lately, trying to browbeat anyone that doesn't agree with them.

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