browbeat

They browbeat him into signing the document.

We shall never allow our police to browbeat prisoners into admitting their guilt.

Synonyms bludgeon, bluster, ||bounce, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, bullyrag, cow, dragoon, hector, ||ruffle, strong-arm, terrorize

She tried to browbeat her employees into working overtime.

He constantly browbeats his younger brother into doing his chores.

The manager used intimidation tactics to browbeat the team into meeting the deadline.

The coach won't browbeat the players but motivates them through positive reinforcement.

She refused to be browbeaten by her boss and stood up for herself.

The teacher doesn't believe in browbeating students to get good grades.

The politician tried to browbeat his opponents during the debate.

He used his position of authority to browbeat others into submission.

The aggressive salesperson tried to browbeat the customer into making a purchase.

She felt uncomfortable with his attempts to browbeat her into agreeing with him.

It was Elfride's first fragile attempt at browbeating a lover.

Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned?

It was whispered in one browbeaten textile union that the mute was an organizer for the C.I.O.

The vision of what ought to have been is thrown aside in sheer weariness, and browbeaten human endeavour listlessly makes the best of the fact that is.

And when this woman can no longer bludgeon, browbeat, or bully her nieces into coming to see her, she has one of her " spells" .

Regrettably, his approach to the issue so far differs little from Mr Abe's: tax incentives and browbeating, with a bit of a boost for public-sector workers.

Crucially, in this original vision, the IMF would help members weather financial instability without browbeating them into undertaking painful policies such as cutting budgets or raising interest rates in the middle of a recession.