Thesaurus / browbeat
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The dal recipe is my favorite because Priya browbeats me, saying, “I don’t want anything to do with this.”
DAVID CHANG AND PRIYA KRISHNA WANT YOU TO GET OVER RECIPESLUCY FELDMANOCTOBER 14, 2021TIMEGetting in someone’s way on the skin track is a misdemeanor, while aggressively browbeating a fellow powder pilgrim in the wilderness is a straight-up felony.
WHO HAS THE RIGHT OF WAY ON THE SKIN TRACK?SUNDOGMARCH 26, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEHe sent the woman up to her room to pack while he expostulated with and browbeat the excited bridegroom in the carriage.
GALLEGHER AND OTHER STORIESRICHARD HARDING DAVISHe proceeded to harangue and even to browbeat the Mayor, who was a very insignificant person compared with Commodore Decatur.
TWELVE NAVAL CAPTAINSMOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELLEspecially as you know perfectly well, and just want to browbeat me into telling lies.
THE MAGIC WORLDEDITH NESBITI now think I was wrong; but I had a feeling that the principal intended to browbeat me into an acknowledgment.
BREAKING AWAYOLIVER OPTICI have seen young men browbeat their sisters, tease them, and be continually unkind.
WHAT A YOUNG WOMAN OUGHT TO KNOWMARY WOOD-ALLENA human soul was involved, and no man, be he lawyer or lover, should browbeat or persuade her.
THE OPENED SHUTTERSCLARA LOUISE BURNHAMThis unhappy desire of his to browbeat her into a state which he defined as normal, Rachel had accepted in numb helplessness.
ERIK DORNBEN HECHTDesperate, facing ruin, some of the planters went after labor too strongly, frightened and browbeat the Bogobos into working.
TERRYCHARLES GOFF THOMSONWORDS RELATED TO BROWBEAT
- bears down
- browbeats
- bulldozes
- coerces
- constrains
- dragoons
- egg on
- encourages
- exerts influence
- expedites
- fires up
- goads
- goes to town on
- gooses
- hurries
- impels
- influences
- inspires
- jollies
- key up
- kids
- lean on
- motivates
- obliges
- overpresses
- persuades
- pours it on
- presses
- pressures
- prods
- pushes around
- puts the screws to
- puts up to
- railroads
- sells on
- speeds
- speeds up
- spurs
- squeezes
- steamrolls
- strong-arms
- turns on
- abrade
- agitate
- anger
- annoy
- bluster
- bother
- browbeat
- bully
- chafe
- confuse
- cow
- disconcert
- disquiet
- disturb
- excite
- floor
- flummox
- flurry
- fluster
- fret
- fuddle
- gall
- get to
- harass
- intimidate
- irk
- nettle
- peeve
- perturb
- provoke
- put off
- put out
- rattle
- rattle one's cage
- shake up
- stir
- stump
- throw into tizzy
- torment
- trouble
- unsettle
- vex
- wear
- worry
- affright
- agitate
- alarm
- appall
- astound
- awe
- browbeat
- bulldoze
- chill
- chill to the bone
- cow
- curdle the blood
- daunt
- demoralize
- deter
- disburb
- discomfort
- disconcert
- discourage
- dishearten
- dismay
- disquiet
- faze
- horrify
- intimidate
- make blood run cold
- make one's blood run cold
- make one's hair stand on end
- make teeth chatter
- panic
- perturb
- petrify
- repel
- scare
- scare away
- scare off
- scare the daylights out of
- scare to death
- silly
- spook
- startle
- stiff
- strike terror into
- terrify
- terrorize
- unhinge
- unnerve
- abuses
- admonishes
- augurs
- blackmails
- blusters
- browbeats
- bullies
- cautions
- comminates
- cows
- enforces
- flex muscles
- forebodes
- forewarns
- fulminates
- growls
- intimidates
- looks daggers
- makes threat
- menaces
- portends
- presages
- pressurizes
- pushes around
- scares
- scowls
- shakes fist at
- snarls
- spooks
- terrorizes
- torments
- walks heavy
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