BOGARTING Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

bogarting

verb

present participle of bogart

as in intimidating

to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats our coach told us not to let the other team bogart us on the field

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The sidewalks of Philadelphia were packed — not with an intimidating crowd of protesters, but with people holding Israeli flags and waiting in line for hours to order a plate of hummus or a bowl of matzah ball soup.

— Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2026
He was also prohibited from intimidating or retaliating against potential witnesses.

— Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of intimidating

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His father believes the killing may be linked to ongoing bullying his son experienced at school.

— Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 11 Nov. 2026
Javits’ father Thomas Frimprong told NYPD detectives two fellow students had recently been suspended for bullying his son.

— Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of bullying

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His campaign strategy in the days before the election seemed to rely on scaring the Israeli public into voting for him.

— Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2026
The white whale of American politics seemed in reach until the president spent two years scaring it away.

— Gabe Fleisher, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of scaring

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Repent and repair Rather than browbeating people into repentance, the Ne’ilah service’s strategy is to boost them up into it, playing upon the biblical idea of the grandeur of humanity.

— Reuven Kimelman, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026
His process of doing so involved disparaging his accusers, browbeating people and institutions that no longer wanted to be associated with him, and refusing to accept a path that precluded a return to being a public figure.

— Elizabeth Spiers, Vanity Fair, 29 Apr. 2026

Definition of browbeating

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The end result has given rise to an insidious and often disturbing form of violence that wins victims’ trust before preying upon them or coercing them into hurting others – for money, for social media clout or sometimes for no reason at all.

— Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 10 Nov. 2026
In lawsuits filed last year, Chegg and PMC accused Google of abusing its monopoly power by coercing publishers into supplying content for AI Overviews for free, or risk disappearing from search results.

— Emma Roth, The Verge, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of coercing

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