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bullyrag

bullyrag verb: to harass, badger, taunt, or abuse verbally.

Verb

bullyrag (third-person singular simple present bullyrags, present participle bullyragging, simple past and past participle bullyragged)

  1. (transitive) To harass, badger, taunt, or abuse verbally.
    • But once again both sides spent as much time bullyragging one another as they did questioning witnesses.1996 July 22, Tim Weiner, “Warnings of a Disaster in Waco Were Ignored, Witness Testifies”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Aug 2014
    • In a feat of no small symbolic value, the school bullyragged the university into shutting down a fossil fuel power plant that had formerly occupied.2009 March 9, “Pursuing the elusive goal of a carbon-neutral building”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 16 Aug 2014

Forms of bullyrag

third-person singular presentbullyrags
present participlebullyragging
past participlebullyragged
pastbullyragged
alternative formballyrag

Words formed from bullyrag

Questions about bullyrag

What does bullyrag mean?
Bullyrag means to harass, badger, taunt, or abuse verbally.
What part of speech is bullyrag?
Bullyrag is a verb.
What is the past tense of bullyrag?
The past tense of bullyrag is bullyragged.

Words near bullyrag in the dictionary

  1. bullyness
  2. bullyproof
  3. bullyproofed
  4. bullyproofing
  5. bullyproofs
  6. bullyrag
  7. bullyragged
  8. bullyragger
  9. bullyraggers
  10. bullyragging
  11. bullyrags

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