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browbeat Definition


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browbeat
verb
    1. To frighten or intimidate someone by speaking angrily or sternly, or by looking fierce; to bully.
      Thesaurus: bully, coerce, cow, domineer, dragoon, hound, intimidate, oppress, threaten, tyrannize.
Derivative: browbeaten
adj
    Etymology: 16c.



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