Bludgeon Definition

blŭjən
bludgeoned, bludgeoning, bludgeons
noun
bludgeons
A short club with a thick, heavy, or loaded end.
Webster's New World
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verb
bludgeoned, bludgeoning, bludgeons
To hit with a heavy club or similar blunt instrument.
American Heritage
To strike with or as with a bludgeon.
Webster's New World
To bully or coerce.
Webster's New World
To overcome, often by intimidation or coercion.
American Heritage

To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.

Their favorite method was bludgeoning us with the same old arguments in favor of their opinions.
Wiktionary
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Other Word Forms of Bludgeon

Noun

Singular:
bludgeon
Plural:
bludgeons

Origin of Bludgeon

  • First attested in 1730. Origin uncertain, perhaps of Cornish origin (recorded as blogon c. 1450) or from Middle French bougeon, a diminutive of bouge (“club, stick”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Bludgeon Sentence Examples

  • It seemed to him as though one of the soldiers near him hit him on the head with the full swing of a bludgeon.

  • The intricate, rumbling bludgeon of ' Becoming The Dragon ' has a pummeling, cyclical rhythmic drive and soaring, left-of-centre chorus.

  • Lecturer makes rapier points about constitutional discrepancies, Solid wants to bludgeon us with street morality; some points I even agree with.

  • In February 1795 he was again arrested, and the Tribun du peuple was solemnly burnt in the Theatre des Bergeres by the jeunesse doree, the young men whose mission it was to bludgeon Jacobinism out of the streets and cafes.

  • A struggle, described by Wellington as "bludgeon work," now ensued, but all efforts to dislodge the Allies having failed, Soult, withdrawing, manoeuvred to his right towards San Sebastian.

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