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    To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or witharrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert byimpudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeatwitnesses.My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten. W. Irving.

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      verb. To bully or intimidate someone into coercion.

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        to intimidate, to coerce

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          When someone lowers their eyebrows to suggest they are angry at another.

          A body language technique popularly used by women. Generally applied to visually punish/threaten male partners.

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            Intimidate (someone), typically into doing something, with stern or abusive words.

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