lean on

Strongest matches

• believe in
• bet on
• build on
• count on
• look to
• rely on

Weak matches

• assume
• be sure about
• gamble on
• reckon on
• stake
• trust
• venture
• wager

Strongest matches

• badger
• bully
• coerce
• harass
• hector
• intimidate
• oppress

Strong matches

• bludgeon
• bluster
• bulldoze
• cow
• domineer
• dragoon
• frighten
• overawe
• overbear
• threaten
• tyrannize

Weak matches

• despotize
• lord it over
• put heat on
• put the chill on
• put through the wringer

Strongest matches

• bludgeon
• browbeat
• coerce
• harass
• hector
• oppress
• persecute
• terrorize
• threaten
• torment
• torture

Strong matches

• bluster
• buffalo
• bulldoze
• cow
• domineer
• dragoon
• enforce
• menace
• overbear
• showboat
• swagger
• tyrannize

Weak matches

• despotize
• ride roughshod
• turn on the heat
• walk heavy

Strongest matches

• berate
• censure
• chastise
• criticize
• excoriate
• flog
• lambaste
• lash
• penalize
• pummel
• punish
• rebuke
• reprimand
• scold
• upbraid

Strong matches

• baste
• beat
• blister
• cane
• chasten
• correct
• discipline
• drub
• flay
• rail
• rate
• ream
• scarify
• scorch
• scourge
• thrash
• whip

Weak matches

• bawl out
• chew out
• come down on
• drag over the coals
• dress down
• jump down one's throat
• lay out
• read the riot act
• scathe
• tongue-lash

Strongest matches

• berate
• castigate
• censure
• flog
• lash
• punish
• upbraid

Strong matches

• baste
• beat
• chasten
• correct
• pummel
• ream
• scourge
• spank
• thrash
• whip

Weak matches

• chew out
• climb all over
• ferule
• lay into
• skelp
• slap down

Strongest matches

• browbeat
• bully
• intimidate
• repress
• strong-arm
• suppress
• terrorize

Strong matches

• beset
• bulldoze
• concuss
• constrain
• cow
• dragoon
• drive
• force
• hinder
• impel
• make
• menace
• oblige
• pressurize
• push
• restrict
• threaten
• urge

Weak matches

• high-pressure
• make an offer they can't refuse
• put the squeeze on
• shotgun
• twist one's arm

Strongest matches

• bank on
• believe
• believe in
• bet on
• depend on
• trust

Weak matches

• aim for
• bargain for
• count upon
• expect from
• heed
• plan on
• reckon on
• rest on
• score
• stake on
• swear by
• tab

Weak matches

• aim for
• bank on
• bargain for
• believe
• believe in
• bet bottom dollar
• bet on
• expect from
• heed
• pin faith on
• place confidence in
• plan on
• reckon on
• rest on
• score
• stake on
• swear by
• tab
• take as gospel truth
• take for granted
• take on trust
• trust

Strongest matches

• bludgeon
• bully
• daunt
• dishearten
• embarrass
• faze
• frighten
• rattle
• strong-arm
• subdue
• terrorize
• unnerve

Strong matches

• abash
• awe
• bluster
• buffalo
• bulldoze
• discomfit
• disconcert
• dismay
• dragoon
• enforce
• hector
• overawe
• scare
• showboat

Weak matches

• push around
• turn on the heat
• walk heavy

Weak matches

• bank on
• bet bottom dollar on
• bet on
• build upon
• calculate on
• confide in
• gamble on
• lay money on
• reckon on
• trust in
• turn to

Strongest matches

• deter
• discourage
• divert
• faze
• prevent
• thwart
• warn

Strong matches

• counsel
• deprecate
• derail
• disincline
• exhort
• expostulate
• hinder
• prick
• remonstrate

Weak matches

• advise against
• caution against
• chicken out
• cry out against
• disadvise
• persuade not to
• put off
• throw a wet blanket on
• throw cold water on
• throw off
• turn off
• urge not to

Strongest matches

• chase
• encourage
• force
• herd
• inspire
• make
• motivate
• prompt
• propel
• push
• rush
• send
• spur
• stimulate

Strong matches

• actuate
• animate
• arouse
• bulldoze
• coerce
• compel
• constrain
• dog
• goad
• goose
• harass
• hasten
• hound
• hurl
• hurry
• hustle
• impel
• induce
• instigate
• kick
• nag
• oblige
• overburden
• overwork
• pound
• press
• pressure
• prod
• provoke
• railroad
• rouse
• shepherd
• shove
• steamroll
• worry

Weak matches

• act upon
• egg on
• put up to
• ride herd on
• spirit up
• work on

Strongest matches

• accomplish
• administer
• apply
• carry out
• implement
• impose
• invoke
• prosecute
• reinforce
• require
• sanction

Strong matches

• administrate
• coerce
• commandeer
• compel
• constrain
• demand
• dictate
• discharge
• dragoon
• drive
• effect
• emphasize
• exact
• execute
• exert
• expect
• extort
• fortify
• fulfill
• goad
• hound
• impel
• incite
• lash
• make
• necessitate
• oblige
• perform
• press
• spur
• strain
• stress
• strong-arm
• support
• urge
• whip
• wrest

Weak matches

• crack down
• egg on
• force upon
• insist on
• put into effect
• put screws to

Strongest matches

• compel
• extort
• extract
• impose
• wrest

Strong matches

• assess
• bleed
• call
• challenge
• claim
• coerce
• command
• constrain
• force
• gouge
• levy
• oblige
• pinch
• postulate
• require
• requisition
• solicit
• squeeze
• wrench
• wring

Weak matches

• insist upon
• put on
• shake down

Strongest matches

• annoy
• constrain
• injure
• punish
• sadden
• sting
• upset
• wound

Strong matches

• abuse
• afflict
• aggrieve
• burn
• chafe
• discomfit
• discommode
• displease
• distress
• excruciate
• faze
• grieve
• lambaste
• martyr
• martyrize
• prejudice
• torment
• torture
• try
• vex
• vitiate
• zing

Weak matches

• cut to the quick
• give no quarter
• go for jugular
• hit where one lives
• lay a bad trip on
• put down
• put out
• thumb nose at
• work over

Strongest matches

• alarm
• awe
• bully
• coerce
• constrain
• daunt
• dishearten
• dismay
• scare
• subdue
• terrify
• terrorize

Strong matches

• badger
• bait
• bludgeon
• bluster
• browbeat
• buffalo
• bulldoze
• chill
• compel
• cow
• dispirit
• disquiet
• dragoon
• enforce
• force
• hound
• oblige
• overawe
• ride
• ruffle
• spook
• strong-arm

Weak matches

• bowl over
• push around
• showboat
• twist someone's arm

Strongest matches

• beat up
• bludgeon
• drub
• lacerate
• molest
• mug
• pummel
• rough up
• thrash
• trample

Strong matches

• bang
• bash
• batter
• beat
• buffet
• claw
• clean
• flagellate
• flail
• hit
• hurt
• ill-treat
• lash
• maltreat
• muscle
• paste
• paw
• pelt
• pound
• skin
• wax
• whip

Weak matches

• break face
• handle roughly
• knock about
• knock around
• let have it
• put in the hospital
• take care of
• work over

Strongest matches

• endanger
• imperil
• intimidate
• jeopardize
• terrorize
• threaten

Strong matches

• alarm
• browbeat
• bully
• chill
• compromise
• hazard
• impend
• loom
• lower
• overhang
• peril
• portend
• risk
• scare
• spook
• torment

Weak matches

• bad-eye
• push around
• put heat on
• scare hell out of
• whip around

Strongest matches

• assail
• demand
• force
• petition
• push
• squeeze
• sue
• urge
• worry

Strong matches

• afflict
• beg
• beset
• besiege
• buttonhole
• compel
• constrain
• depress
• disquiet
• enjoin
• entreat
• exhort
• harass
• implore
• importune
• oppress
• plague
• plead
• pressurize
• railroad
• sadden
• sell
• supplicate
• torment
• vex

Weak matches

• come at
• insist on
• weigh down
• work on

Strongest matches

• compel
• constrain
• insist
• press
• push

Strong matches

• drive
• impel
• politick
• rush
• sell
• squeeze

Weak matches

• come at
• push around
• twist arm
• work over

Strongest matches

• encourage
• press
• pressure
• speed
• spur

Strong matches

• browbeat
• bulldoze
• coerce
• constrain
• dragoon
• expedite
• goad
• goose
• hurry
• impel
• influence
• inspire
• jolly
• kid
• motivate
• oblige
• persuade
• prod
• railroad
• squeeze
• steamroll
• strong-arm

Weak matches

• bear down
• egg on
• exert influence
• fire up
• go to town on
• key up
• overpress
• pour it on
• push around
• put the screws to
• put up to
• sell on
• speed up
• turn on

Strongest matches

• assault
• blockade
• bomb
• bombard
• harass
• invade
• loot
• overrun
• plunder
• ransack
• rob
• storm
• strafe
• swoop

Strong matches

• assail
• breach
• charge
• despoil
• devastate
• forage
• foray
• harry
• heat
• inroad
• maraud
• pirate
• rake
• rifle
• sack
• sally
• shell
• slough
• strike
• sweep
• torpedo
• waste

Weak matches

• break in
• descend on
• fall upon
• fire on
• knock off
• knock over
• lean against
• march on
• sally forth
• spoliate
• tip over

Strongest matches

• admonish
• berate
• castigate
• censure
• chide
• go after
• oppose
• reprimand
• reproach
• scold
• upbraid

Strong matches

• blame
• fry
• give a talking-to
• jawbone
• lecture
• lesson
• monish
• pay
• rake
• read
• reprehend
• reprove
• rip
• zap

Weak matches

• bawl out
• call on the carpet
• carp on
• chew out
• climb all over
• dress down
• jump down one's throat
• jump on
• lay into
• sit on
• sound off
• take to task
• tear apart
• tell off
• tick off

Strongest matches

• bank on
• believe in
• count on
• depend on
• trust
• turn to

Weak matches

• bet bottom dollar on
• bet on
• build upon
• calculate on
• confide in
• gamble on
• lay money on
• reckon on
• trust in

Strongest matches

• extract
• pinch
• wring

Strong matches

• bleed
• extort
• milk
• oppress
• pressure
• pressurize
• wrench

Weak matches

• bring pressure to bear
• eke out
• put screws to
• shake down

Strongest matches

• count on
• depend on
• look to

Strong matches

• accredit
• assume
• expect
• hope
• imagine
• presume
• suppose
• surmise
• take

Weak matches

• bank on
• be convinced
• bet bottom dollar on
• bet on
• build on
• calculate on
• confide in
• gamble on
• have faith in
• lay money on
• place confidence in
• place trust in
• reckon on
• rely upon
• swear by
• take at face value
• think likely