Usually means: Intimidating someone through aggressive words.
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  1. browbeating: Merriam-Webster
  2. browbeating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. browbeating: Vocabulary.com
  4. browbeating: Wordnik
  5. browbeating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. browbeating: Wiktionary
  7. Browbeating, browbeating: Dictionary.com
  8. browbeating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Browbeating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. browbeating: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Browbeating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. browbeating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. browbeating: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Browbeating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. browbeating: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (browbeating)

▸ noun:  A scolding.

Similar:
ballyrag, bullyrag, hector, strong-arm, swagger, push around, bully, boss around, berating, jawing, more...

Opposite:
encouragement, support, praise, upliftment

Types:
intimidation, harassment, coercion, threats, blackmail, more...

Adjectives:
much, such, constant, judicial, subtle, pious, coarse, intellectual, verbal, same, successful



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Similar:
ballyrag, bullyrag, hector, strong-arm, swagger, push around, bully, boss around, berating, jawing, more...

Opposite:
encouragement, support, praise, upliftment

Types:
intimidation, harassment, coercion, threats, blackmail, more...

Adjectives:
much, such, constant, judicial, subtle, pious, coarse, intellectual, verbal, same, successful



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