ARM-TWISTED Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

arm-twisted

verb

past tense of arm-twist

as in browbeat

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Dodgers management didn’t browbeat Treinen and Call, and that’s fine — ballplayers should be entitled to share their personal thoughts, however noxious.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026
No need to legally browbeat AI makers or require AI developers to implement specialized AI safety features.

— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

Definition of browbeat

Verb

What stood out was his confidence; Bouaddi was never cowed up against the experienced pairing of Bruno Guimaraes and Casemiro.

— Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 22 July 2026
Refusing to be cowed, Sartre responded to Aron with his own book on Marx, the nine-hundred-page Critique of Dialectical Reason, in 1960.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 July 2026

Definition of cowed

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For over two years, a 16-year-old transgender girl says she was bullied, excluded and discriminated against by her teammates and coaches at the Capital Crew youth rowing program housed at the Sacramento State Aquatic Center.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Airing on March 18, 1975, the episode was focused on the Evans family’s young son Michael Evans (Ralph Carter), who was being bullied at school for his lunch money by classmate Eddie (Doug Grant).

— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of bullied

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Opponents said that earlier ordinance, which allowed home sizes to more than double to 3,000 square feet, threatened to turn the island into Georgia’s next coastal development hot spot.

— Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Biden gave him a presidential pardon after congressional Republicans threatened him with criminal charges over his handling of COVID-19.

— Michael Collins, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of threatened

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At school, he was hectored because of his shabby wardrobe.

— Dan Pompei, New York Times, 23 June 2026
For over a century, citizens have been surveilled while the media is harassed and hectored into compromise, so that the official rhetoric of Slavic suprematism can go unchallenged.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026

Definition of hectored

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Wepa Up started out hot, but the War Raiders bulldozed Truth and Damian Priest on the outside.

— Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
The highlight of the lottery pick battle was when Lendeborg bulldozed Boozer in transition before flipping in a feathery floater for two points in the first half.

— Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 15 July 2026

Definition of bulldozed

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The women were shamed into surrendering their babies by their families and a powerful church.

— Bill Whitaker, CBS News, 12 July 2026
But because there are rules and codes that have to be honored to make sports work, the transgressors typically are penalized or at least shamed for doing so.

— Vahe Gregorian July 7, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026

Definition of shamed

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