cudgel
noun
a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
cudgeled
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past participleof cudgel.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof cudgel.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
cudgelnouna short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
Example Sentences
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The action may not be as important as the message — that people deserved to be treated with respect and dignity — but that message is cudgeled into viewers.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2020
It is only with some remove that this array gives up its scatter graph specificity and can be cudgeled into a best fit line.
From Slate ● May 4, 2016
Exposition abounds, events that should be summarized drag out in tiresome scenes, what should be insinuated is instead cudgeled home.
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2013
Holbrooke, having more or less imprisoned the delegations on the U.S. airbase at Dayton, Ohio, cudgeled them into grudging submission.
From Newsweek ● Dec. 14, 2010
Why should he have cudgeled his brains to fashion weapons and to contrive snares for the killing of game of which he was in no more need than his vegetarian cousins, the anthropoid apes?
From The Black Man's Place in South Africa by Peter Nielsen
