- past participle of browbeat.
browbeaten
Example Sentences
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Maybe, they’ll need to hope, he will get bored enough in retirement to consider it, or maybe he can be browbeaten into feeling the insatiable itch of public service.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2024
But the truth is they had to be browbeaten into leading that revolution.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
In an age when batters are browbeaten with launch angles aimed to produce longballs, the Guardians are an anomaly.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
As the tragedies accumulated midshow, I started to feel a little browbeaten by the cast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
He had been browbeaten and humiliated successively that morning by Colonel Cathcart, Colonel Korn and Corporal Whitcomb.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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