Beaten vs Bludgeon - What's the difference?
beaten | bludgeon |
defeated
repeatedly struck
(cookery)(cookery - of a liquid) mixed by paddling with a wooden spoon or other implement
A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.
To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.
To coerce someone, as if with a 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
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Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* off the beaten path * off the beaten track * beaten upbludgeon
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Noun
(en noun)- We smashed the radio with a steel bludgeon .
See also
* truncheonVerb
(en verb)- The apprehended rioter was bludgeoned to death.
- Their favorite method was bludgeoning us with the same old arguments in favor of their opinions.