Browbeat vs Threaten - What's the difference?
browbeat | threaten | Related terms |
To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.
To make a threat against someone; to use threats.
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, chapter=2 To menace, or be dangerous.
To portend, or give a warning of.
As verbs the difference between browbeat and threaten
is that browbeat is to bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way while threaten is to make a threat against someone; to use threats.browbeat
English
Alternative forms
* brow-beatVerb
- Though the teacher browbeat all the children, they still acted out during the lesson.
Synonyms
* (to bully in an intimidating way) bully, cow, domineer, intimidateReferences
* * English irregular verbsthreaten
English
Verb
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- He threatened me with a knife.
- The rocks threatened the ship's survival.
- The black clouds threatened heavy rain.
