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
I cudgeled and cudgeled my brains wondering what I could do for her, and all I could think of was the hospital at Camp Axton.
From The Lost Wagon by James Arthur Kjelgaard
