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to browbeat
01
to force a person into doing something by threatening or frightening them
Grammatical Information
Composition
Compound
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
browbeat
3rd person singular
browbeats
Present participle
browbeating
Past simple
browbeat
Past participle
browbeaten
Examples
He tried to browbeat his coworkers into accepting the new policy.
Lexical Tree
browbeat
brow
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