browbeat

Other forms of browbeat

past tense or participle

browbeaten

present participle

browbeating·

third person

browbeats·

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 browbeat

What does browbeat mean?

browbeat means "be bossy towards". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in browbeat?

browbeat has 2 syllables: brow-beat. The stress falls on "brow". In IPA it is /ˈbɹaʊˌbit/.

What is another word for browbeat?

Close synonyms include strong-arm, bully, bullyrag, ballyrag, boss around. 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 browbeat a common word?

browbeat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with browbeat?

8 words rhyme with browbeat. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.