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Meanings of browbeat in English

Catalan
intimidar

Be bossy towards.

intimidar
Usage of browbeat in English
1
Can you browbeat people into thinking something is popular when it isn't?
Wired
2
He was not easily browbeaten, and was generally prepared to browbeat others.
The Three Clerks
3
The leader then browbeat more of his gang into charging the doorway.
Dancer’s Lament
4
Don't let the Cabinet browbeat you, and smother you with plausible sophistries.
The Lost Naval Papers
5
You come here and try to browbeat Miss Harriman when she's alone.
Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story
6
How dare you come here to annoy and browbeat that poor girl?
Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society
7
She was not going to let her current circumstances browbeat her.
For the love of mike
8
It offended me that the Duke should attempt to browbeat you.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and might...
9
So you could browbeat her into changing her mind, you mean.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
10
He browbeat the constable very soon, and even bullied Master Shaw into silence.
Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories
11
He cross-questioned the witnesses, and did his best to browbeat Peverell.
Up the River; or, Yachting on the Mississippi
12
They didn't browbeat me, but I had definitely made them uneasy.
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest ...
13
I like to be moved by arguments, not browbeat by them.
Ebony
14
No...they tried to browbeat someone much further down the totem pole.
Consent to kill: a thriller
15
They argued with her, pleaded with her, tried to browbeat her.
The Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature
16
And why couldn't Lapierre have been the one to browbeat and bully them?
The Gun-Brand
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Catalan
intimidar
Browbeat through the time
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