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Beaten vs Bludgeon - What's the difference?

beaten | bludgeon |

As verbs the difference between beaten and bludgeon

is that beaten is while bludgeon is to strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.

As an adjective beaten

is defeated.

As a noun bludgeon is

a short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.

beaten

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • defeated
  • repeatedly struck
  • (cookery)(cookery - of a liquid) mixed by paddling with a wooden spoon or other implement
  • Derived terms

    * off the beaten path * off the beaten track * beaten up

    bludgeon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.
  • We smashed the radio with a steel bludgeon .

    See also

    * truncheon

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.
  • The apprehended rioter was bludgeoned to death.
  • To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.
  • Their favorite method was bludgeoning us with the same old arguments in favor of their opinions.

    Synonyms

    * (to club) cudgel * (coerce) harrass, pummel

    Derived terms

    * bludgeoner

    References

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