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browbeat
Synonyms and Antonyms of browbeat
to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats
- I refuse to be browbeaten into making unnecessary changes.
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Phrases Synonymous with browbeat
pick on
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Synonym Discussion of browbeat
intimidate, cow, bulldoze, bully, browbeat mean to frighten into submission. intimidate implies inducing fear or a sense of inferiority into another.
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- intimidated by so many other bright freshmen
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- not at all cowed by the odds against making it in show business
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- bulldozed the city council into approving the plan
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- bullied into giving up their lunch money
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- browbeat the witness into a contradiction
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