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Meanings of browbeaten in anglès

Intimidated.

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Examples for "intimidated"
Examples for "intimidated"
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If people get intimidated, that role will be under risk, he said.
Reuters
2
Demonstrators demanding jobs disrupted output, damaged property and intimidated employees, Lonmin said.
Reuters
3
As I spoke, rage sparkled in my eyes; the magistrate was intimidated.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
4
The carriers, then as now the spearhead of American power, intimidated Beijing.
Reuters
5
But on recent trips, Anthony reports he has been threatened and intimidated.
Radio NZ
1
Does the data really show that South African pupils are most bullied?
The South African
2
Twenty four say they've been bullied by the MP they work for.
BBC
3
Staff told inspectors they had been pressured or bullied to change data.
The Guardian
4
However, President Xi will not be bullied into making a bad deal.
Reuters
5
Her manager and colleagues bullied her about the content of the letters.
Radio NZ
1
The sight of those uniforms in the broad daylight had cowed him.
Pee-wee Harris on the Trail
2
But Mariama refused to be cowed by the gravity of the situation.
Schild’s Ladder
3
Hain was impressed and cowed; he hadn't seen anyone else doing that.
Midnight at the well of souls
4
The gray horse quieted, cowed by the very terror and the hush.
The Other Girls
5
The Jacobites had been cowed by the issue of the last rebellion.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
1
Single-pitch hangdog sessions where your partner works out moves and takes forever.
Climbing Magazine
2
Hildie looked from the closing door to Elizabeth with her hangdog expression.
Her mother's hope
3
Her eyes were red from crying and she had a hangdog expression.
Under orders
4
He caught sight of his reflection in the mirror, hangdog and sweaty.
Anansi Boys
5
Pellegrini's always sober press conferences and hangdog demeanour certainly calmed the place down.
The Guardian
Usage of browbeaten in anglès
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Not yet browbeaten, the warlike Mrs. Sherman appealed to the General Court.
The Beginnings of New England / Or the Puritan Theocracy in its ...
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Parker, a former gay rights activist, said she would not be browbeaten.
The Guardian
3
Rangers, earlier bullish, were now browbeaten with injustice overtaken by harsh realities.
The Guardian
4
He had learned that the students would not be browbeaten or bullied.
Breaking Away; or, The Fortunes of a Student
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He was not easily browbeaten, and was generally prepared to browbeat others.
The Three Clerks
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He had been badly browbeaten, and-forsome reason-hehad had to submit.
The Bars of Iron
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Might not his integrity be browbeaten and defeated, as mine had been?
Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are
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I'm struggling to do my best, and I'm browbeaten on every side.
Doctor Thorne
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Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned?
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
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But Sussex is not easily browbeaten when it thinks itself in the right.
The Postmaster's Daughter
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No longer ostracised and browbeaten, Putin was the man everybody wanted to meet.
The Guardian
12
She could not allow herself to be forever browbeaten by Sarah.
The Rains Came
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The landed interest is not going to be browbeaten by coal-mines.
Red Pottage
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We are not to be browbeaten in this style, remarked Squire Paget, pompously.
The Young Bridge-Tender; or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle
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But I couldn't forget the daughter of this browbeaten American father.
A Fool and His Money
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A browbeaten glance, almost of misery, was all she gave him.
The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid
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