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• brow-beat

語源

From brow +‎ beat.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈbɹaʊ.biːt/

動詞

browbeat (third-person singular simple present browbeats, present participle browbeating, simple past browbeat, past participle browbeaten)

1. (transitive) To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.

   Synonyms: bully, cow, domineer, intimidate; see also Thesaurus:intimidate

   Though the teacher browbeat all the children, they still acted out during the lesson.

   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 26:

     Beware lest thy mind be swayed by the brow-beating of the Demons.

   • 1993 November 28, Carol Muske, quoting Dudley Fitts, “Laura Riding Roughshod”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Dudley Fitts reared far back, pronouncing her [Laura Riding] with “few equals” when it came to “browbeating an audience into conviction by sheer force of arrogance, among any poets living or dead.”

   • 2022, Devon Price, chapter 2, in Michele Eniclerico, editor, Unmasking Autism, New York: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 74:

     Autistics don’t need cognitive behavioral training to help us not be rules by our emotions. In fact, most of us have been browbeaten into ignoring our feelings too much.

派生語

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “browbeat”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “browbeat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.