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browbeat
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- Étymologie manquante ou incomplète. Si vous la connaissez, vous pouvez l’ajouter en cliquant ici.
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browbeat \Prononciation ?\ irrégulier
- Brimer de manière autoritaire ; intimider ; s’en prendre aux plus faibles.
Let him be dacent, and it’s ceevil treatment he’ll get; but no man shall browbeat me on me own floor.
— (Anonymous, Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and Her Irish Nurse)Even so, a good therapist had to push the patient, encourage the weak, and browbeat the strong; to cajole and to shame, all in the name of health; that meant taking satisfaction from the exertion and pain of others, and O’Toole could not have done that.
— (Tom Clancy, Without Remorse, 1993)
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- \brɑʊ.biːt\
- États-Unis : écouter « browbeat [brɑʊ.biːt] »
- (Australie) : écouter « browbeat [Prononciation ?] »
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