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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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. My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten. --W. Irving. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Browbeating \Brow"beat`ing\, n. The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions. The imperious browbeatings and scorn of great men. --L'Estrange. | |
