browbeatbrow‧beat /ˈbraʊbiːt/ verb (past tense browbeat, past participle browbeaten /-biːtn/) [transitive] 
Verb Table Examples
She was determined to browbeat everyone into believing her.
Verb TableVERB 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 FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- 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.
- 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.
Longman Language Activatorto force someone to do something► force
to try to make someone do something, especially in a threatening waybrowbeat somebody into doing something · 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".
She was determined to browbeat everyone into believing her.