browbeat
UK/ˈbɹaʊ.biːt/
browbeat verb: to bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.
Verb
browbeat (third-person singular simple present browbeats, present participle browbeating, simple past browbeat, past participle browbeaten)
- To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.
- Though the teacher browbeat all the children, they still acted out during the lesson.
- Beware lest thy mind be swayed by the brow-beating of the Demons.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 26
- Synonyms:
- bully, cow, domineer, intimidate, buffalo, bulldoze, dastardize, daunt, dishearten, do down
browbeat meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Arabic
browbeat in Tamil
- கொடுஞ்சொற்களாலும் கொடுநோக்காலும் அதட்டு, கொடுமைப் பரத்திக் கீழடக்கு, உண்மையைக் கூறுமாறு அடி
browbeat in Urdu
- گھڑکنا
browbeat in Malayalam
- intimidate, bully, hector
- രൂക്ഷമായി നോക്കുക, നോക്കി പേടിപ്പിക്കുക, ഭീഷണി പ്രയോഗിക്കുക, ഭീഷണിപ്പെടുത്തുക, കണ്ണരുട്ടിവിരട്ടുക, ഭയപ്പെടുത്തുക
browbeat in Arabic
- to bully in an intimidating way
- أَخَافَ ʔaḵāfa, أَرْعَبَ ʔarʕaba, خَوَّفَ ḵawwafa, أَرْهَبَ ʔarhaba
More languagesFewer languages
- browbeat in Vietnamese
- nạt nộ, bắt nạt
Examples of browbeat in a sentence
- 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.”1993 November 28, Carol Muske, quoting Dudley Fitts, “Laura Riding Roughshod”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- In fact, most of us have been browbeaten into ignoring our feelings too much.2022, Devon Price, chapter 2, in Michele Eniclerico, editor, Unmasking Autism, New York: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 74:
Synonyms of browbeat
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Forms of browbeat
| third-person singular present | browbeats |
|---|---|
| present participle | browbeating |
| past | browbeat |
| past participle | browbeaten |
| alternative form | brow-beat |
Origin of browbeat
From brow + beat.
Words formed from browbeat
Questions about browbeat
- What does browbeat mean?
- Browbeat means to bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.
- What is browbeat in Tamil?
- Browbeat in Tamil is கொடுஞ்சொற்களாலும் கொடுநோக்காலும் அதட்டு, கொடுமைப் பரத்திக் கீழடக்கு, உண்மையைக் கூறுமாறு அடி. See Browbeat meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use browbeat in a sentence?
- 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.”
- What part of speech is browbeat?
- Browbeat is a verb.
- How do you pronounce browbeat?
- Browbeat is pronounced /ˈbɹaʊ.biːt/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of browbeat?
- The past tense of browbeat is browbeat.
Words near browbeat in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: browbeat (page history and authors); browbeat (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); browbeat (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); browbeat (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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