单词	browbeat
释义	browbeatbrow‧beat /ˈbraʊbiːt/ verb (past tense browbeat, past participle browbeaten /-biːtn/) [transitive] Verb Table VERB TABLE browbeat Simple Form Present I, you, we, they browbeat he, she, it browbeats Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they browbeat Present perfect I, you, we, they have browbeaten he, she, it has browbeaten Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had browbeaten Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will browbeat Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have browbeaten Continuous Form Present I am browbeating he, she, it is browbeating you, we, they are browbeating Past I, he, she, it was browbeating you, we, they were browbeating Present perfect I, you, we, they have been browbeating he, she, it has been browbeating Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been browbeating Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be browbeating Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been browbeating Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Clausen has been known to browbeat witnesses. I really didn't want to make this speech -- I was browbeaten into it by my colleagues. The miners were browbeaten into working in a part of the mine that the company knew to be dangerous. The salesman tried browbeating me but it didn't work. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS After all, what sort of conspiracy is it when the victim has to browbeat his supposed aggressors into taking part? And his bottom-of-the-table Forest side looked similarly browbeaten after slipping to their ninth defeat of the season. And the man who did most of the begging, cajoling, and browbeating was Joseph Alsop. But she wasn't going to let him browbeat her. For a few moments she felt nineteen again, unsure and nervous, easily browbeaten because she had very little self-confidence. He had joined the ship just as we sailed, somehow browbeating the mate into letting him board. Hence, the commander had to beg, cajole, and browbeat authorities of three nations to get what he needed. The only way was to browbeat them. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorto force someone to do something► force · You don't have to come if you don't want to. Nobody's forcing you.force somebody to do something · Women's organizations are trying to force the government to appoint more women to senior positions.force somebody into doing something · Her parents are trying to force her into marrying a man she hardly knows.force somebody into something · I had never thought of buying an insurance policy, and I wasn't going to be forced into it by some young salesman.force somebody out of · Eddie feels that he was forced out of his job in order to make way for a younger man. ► make to force someone to do something that they do not want to do. Make is less formal than force: · I really didn't want to go, but she made me.make somebody do something: · I wanted to watch the film, but Dad made me do my homework.· Karen made him promise never to discuss the subject again. ► put pressure on to keep trying to persuade someone to do something, for example by saying that it is their duty or that it will help other people: put pressure on somebody to do something: · Our parents were putting pressure on us to get married.· Advertising puts pressure on parents to work long hours, in order to buy things that their children don't need. ► pressurize also pressurise British, /pressure American to try to make someone do something by persuading them very strongly and making them feel that they should do it: · I'll get this done as soon as I can -- just don't pressure me, OK!· If she feels you're trying to pressurize her, she won't do it.pressurize/pressure somebody into doing something: · School children are often pressurized into studying very hard from an early age by their parents.· The committee pressured him into resigning.pressure somebody to do something: · Her boyfriend is pressuring her to have an abortion. ► push to strongly encourage someone to do something: push somebody to do something: · My parents keep pushing me to get a good job.push somebody into doing something: · Don't let them push you into a making a decision before you're ready.push somebody into something: · Are you sure you want to marry me? I don't want to push you into anything. ► browbeat to force someone to do what you want them to do by repeatedly asking them to do it until they finally agree: · The salesman tried browbeating me but it didn't work.browbeat somebody into (doing) something: · The miners were browbeaten into working in a part of the mine that the company knew to be dangerous.· I really didn't want to make this speech -- I was browbeaten into it by my colleagues. ► emotional blackmail an attempt to force someone to do something, by making them feel guilty for not doing it: · She's always using emotional blackmail and playing on other people's feelings.· Any relationship that has to depend on emotional blackmail can't be a healthy one. ► be breathing down somebody's neck informal if someone is breathing down your neck about something, they keep asking you to do it in order to make you do it sooner: · I'm already really busy today, and now Paul's breathing down my neck saying he wants the Paris deal completed.have somebody breathing down your neck: · We'd better start sending out those letters soon -- I've had the sales manager breathing down my neck about it all week. ► be on somebody's back informal to be trying to make someone do something they do not want to do, especially by telling them several times to do it: · Nick knew that the coach would be on his back if he missed another training session.be on sb's back about: · Aunt Mimi was always on his back about him "wasting time playing that silly guitar". to try to make someone do something, especially in a threatening waybrowbeat somebody into doing something She was determined to browbeat everyone into believing her.
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