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Browbeat
is one of our favorite verbs.
So is yaff. Does it mean:
| to introduce subtleties into or argue subtly about. |
| to bark; yelp. |
Example Sentences
- MacDonald browbeat department biologists and habitat specialists and.
- Union members picketed petrol stations and browbeat station attendants into dropping prices.
- Jekyll, the league members browbeat him into joining.
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"[I]t appears from the earliest quotations ... that the brow in question was that of the beater, not of the beaten party; but it is not evident whether the meaning was 'to beat with one's (frowning) brows,' or 'to beat (?lower) one's brows at.'" [OED]Related: Browbeaten; browbeating.
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