bullyragged

verb

variants also ballyragged
past tense of bullyrag
as in intimidated
to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats anonymous trolls on the website tried to bullyrag him into backing down

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bullyragged
  1. intimidated
  2. bullied
  3. frightened
  4. scared
Verb
  • Don’t be intimidated by the random Amazon shoe brands—most of the time, the quality and price is there.
    — Kaitlin Clapinski, InStyle, 12 July 2026
  • McDonald, a former lobster boat captain, was not intimidated.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2026
Definition of intimidated
Verb
  • Bang-geul was bullied by her older half-siblings, who looked down on their younger sister because of her mom’s former status as a domestic employee.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 6 July 2026
  • This was a rabid, partisan home-soil advantage that flat-out bullied the squad into surviving.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 2 July 2026
Definition of bullied
Verb
  • At the time of writing, as the Marine Traffic map shows, tanker traffic is barely moving through the Strait, and many ships, unable to obtain insurance or with their owners frightened at the level of risk involved, are refusing to advance.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • But because the president has frightened Congress, Congress doesn’t raise its voice when the president puts his Albert Speer–like building project, or intends to, on Congress’s land.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
Definition of frightened
Verb
  • Running into the real Santosh again amid that backdrop, Juyal asked him if the danger scared him.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 July 2026
  • Jefferies names it as a top pick, and the margin dip that scared investors is a temporary cost of its Armis acquisition that management expects to reverse in 2027.
    — Todd Gordon, CNBC, 8 July 2026
Definition of scared
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