browbeat
verb (used with object)
to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully.
have browbeaten
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present perfectof browbeat.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Nobody could have browbeaten her, none irritated her nerves, exhausted her patience, or overreached her astuteness.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Those men have browbeaten the company long enough.
From In the Shadow of the Hills by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd
Nobody could have browbeaten her, none irritated her nerves, exhausted her patience, or over-reached her astuteness.
From Villette by Charlotte Brontë
We’ll talk price until I have browbeaten you as low as you will go.
From The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man by James Montgomery Flagg
