browbeatverb [ T ]
uk/ˈbraʊ.biːt/us/ˈbraʊ.biːt/browbeat, browbeatento try to force someone to do something by threatening them or persuading them forcefully and unfairly:
Don't be browbeaten into working more hours than you want.
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Causing somebody to act
- a kick up the arse/backside idiom
- arm-twisting
- bludgeon
- bounce
- bounce sb into sth
- bulldoze
- force sb's hand idiom
- forcible
- hold sb to ransom idiom
- impel
- impose
- push
- railroad
- reduce sb to sth
- screw
- shanghai
- slap sth on/onto (sth/sb)
- squeeze
- squeeze sth out of sb
- trap
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Urging & persuading