bludgeon
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /blʌdʒ.ən/
bludgeon (plural bludgeons)
- A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.
- We smashed the radio with a steel bludgeon.
- French: matraque
- German: Knüppel
- Italian: mazza
- Portuguese: clava
- Russian: дуби́нка
- Spanish: cachiporra, cachiporra, porra, maza, garrote, clava
bludgeon (bludgeons, present participle bludgeoning; past and past participle bludgeoned)
- (transitive) To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.
- The apprehended rioter was bludgeoned to death.
- (transitive) To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.
- Their favorite method was bludgeoning us with the same old arguments in favor of their opinions.
- French: soutirer
- German: aufzwingen
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