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Browbeating
(gcide) | Browbeating \Brow"beat`ing\, n.
The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with
stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions.
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The imperious browbeatings and scorn of great men.
--L'Estrange.
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Browbeating
(gcide) | Browbeat \Brow"beat`\, v. t. [imp. Browbeat; p. p.
Browbeaten; p. pr. & vb. n. Browbeating.]
To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with
arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or
disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully;
as, to browbeat witnesses.
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My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten. --W.
Irving.
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