BLUDGEON meaning: Heavy club used to strike

We found 30 dictionaries that define the word bludgeon:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

bludgeon: Merriam-Webster
bludgeon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
bludgeon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
bludgeon: Collins English Dictionary
bludgeon: Vocabulary.com
Bludgeon, bludgeon: Wordnik
bludgeon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
bludgeon: Wiktionary
bludgeon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
bludgeon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
bludgeon: Infoplease Dictionary
Bludgeon, bludgeon: Dictionary.com
bludgeon (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
bludgeon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Bludgeon (weapon), Bludgeon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Bludgeon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
bludgeon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
bludgeon: Rhymezone
Bludgeon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
bludgeon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
bludgeon: FreeDictionary.org
bludgeon: Mnemonic Dictionary
bludgeon: TheFreeDictionary.com
bludgeon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

bludgeon: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

bludgeon: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

bludgeon: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
bludgeon: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.

Similar:

club, cudgel, truncheon, knobkierie, billy club, thwacker, baton, stick, billy, pounder, more...

Opposite:

caress, embrace, hug, kiss

Types:

mace, club, blackjack, flail, war hammer, morningstar, more...

Phrases:

opposite of opposite of bludgeon, opposite of bludgeon, more...

Adjectives:

heavy, short, huge, thick, political, formidable, dirty, clumsy, stout, mighty, loaded

Colors:

crimson, burgundy, maroon, blood red, scarlet, more...