Usually means: Intimidate someone into doing something.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word browbeat:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. browbeat: Merriam-Webster
  2. browbeat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. browbeat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. browbeat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. browbeat: Vocabulary.com
  6. browbeat: Wordnik
  7. browbeat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. browbeat: Wiktionary
  9. browbeat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. browbeat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. browbeat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Browbeat, browbeat: Dictionary.com
  13. browbeat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Browbeat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. browbeat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. browbeat: Rhymezone
  17. Browbeat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. Browbeat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. browbeat: FreeDictionary.org
  20. browbeat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. browbeat: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. browbeat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. browbeat: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. browbeat: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. browbeat: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. browbeat: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See browbeaten as well.)

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

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