arm-twisted

verb

past tense of arm-twist
as in browbeat

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arm-twisted
  1. browbeat
  2. intimidated
  3. cowed
  4. bullied
  5. threatened
  6. hectored
  7. bulldozed
  8. shamed
Verb
  • 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
  • One of her objectives in writing the book was helping home cooks feel less intimidated by the meat counter.
    — Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2026
  • Vega has visited her and intimidated her into divulging Ji’s fake death certificate.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 24 July 2026
Definition of intimidated
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
Verb
  • There, Pinocchio witnesses James being bullied by his peers, and his vengeful instincts kick in.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 July 2026
  • Alison Arngrim Nellie Oleson, the daughter of the mercantile store owners who bullied Laura, was played by Alison Arngrim.
    — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 26 July 2026
Definition of bullied
Verb
  • When it was threatened by a winter freeze, Rowlings pulled out all the stops.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
  • Earlier this month, five armed men carrying machine guns invaded their land, threatened families and searched for their main leaders.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 July 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
Verb
  • 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
  • More than 500 homes and businesses in the historically Black neighborhood of Parramore were taken through eminent domain and bulldozed to build the interstate.
    — Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2026
Definition of bulldozed
Verb
  • 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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“Arm-twisted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arm-twisted. Accessed 30 Jul. 2026.

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