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单词 browbeat
释义
browbeat
verb[T]
uk
/ˈbraʊ.biːt/us
/ˈbraʊ.biːt/
browbeat|browbeaten
totrytoforcesomeone to do something bythreateningthem orpersuadingthemforcefullyandunfairly:
威吓；吓唬
Don't be browbeatenintoworkingmorehoursthan youwant.别被唬住去加班工作。
Synonym
hectordisapproving
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Causing somebody to act
  • arm-twisting
  • bludgeon
  • bounce
  • bouncesomeoneintosomething
  • bulldoze
  • bully
  • forcibly
  • holdsomeoneto ransomidiom
  • impel
  • impose
  • jolt
  • railroad
  • ramsomethingintosomeone
  • reduce
  • reducesomeonetosomething
  • reimpose
  • reimposition
  • slap
  • squeeze
  • trap
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Urging & persuading
(Definition ofbrowbeatfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

browbeat| American Dictionary

browbeat
verb[T]
us
/ˈbrɑʊˌbit/
past tensebrowbeat|past participlebrowbeatenus/ˈbrɑʊˌbi·tən/
toaskordemandcontinuallythat someone do something:
Heobjectedthat McDonald was browbeating thewitness.
(Definition ofbrowbeatfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbrowbeat

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Again, local committees, instead of being browbeaten, should be encouraged to go in for propaganda work.
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My noble friend was not trying tobrowbeatanybody.
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It is essential, if they are to continue this work, that they are not browbeaten by cheap imports.
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They are trying tobrowbeatus into supporting them on it, and we will not have it.
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I feel that nothing can be gained by absolutely crushing and browbeating them.
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Are we going to allow ourselves to be browbeaten?
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We must not allow ourselves to be browbeaten, inveigled or hammered into giving up and letting others produce what we should produce ourselves.
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Although we are sympathetic to these petitions, does this not illustrate that pensioners are being browbeaten into accepting that they must now ask for charity?
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I earnestly hope that we will not be browbeaten in this matter by the attempt of some newspapers to prevent us clearing our name.
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He should not be browbeaten by the generals.
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We shall not resort to blackmail in order tobrowbeatthe voluntary grammar schools.
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I am perfectly willing to give way, but he must learn to show a little courtesy, instead of just pushing in and trying tobrowbeat.
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An attempt was made tobrowbeatthe community into accepting a thoroughly ill-conceived proposition.
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We cannotbrowbeatmen like that and pay them a price to get out of agriculture.
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At one moment one man browbeats the party.
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