bludgeon

Other forms of bludgeon

plural

bludgeons·

past tense

bludgeoned·

present participle

bludgeoning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bludgeon

What does bludgeon mean?

bludgeon means "overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bludgeon?

bludgeon has 2 syllables: blud-geon. The stress falls on "blud". In IPA it is /ˈblʌdʒən/.

What is another word for bludgeon?

Close synonyms include club. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bludgeon a common word?

bludgeon is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.