browbeat

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**Verbe irrégulier**
Temps	Forme
Infinitif	to browbeat \brɑʊ.biːt\
Présent simple, 3^e pers. sing.	browbeats \brɑʊ.biːts\
Prétérit	browbeat \brɑʊ.biːt\
Participe passé	browbeat ou browbeaten \brɑʊ.biːt\ ou \brɑʊ.biːtən\
Participe présent	browbeating \brɑʊ.biːtiŋ\
voir conjugaison anglaise

browbeat \Prononciation ?\ irrégulier

Brimer de manière autoritaire ; intimider ; s’en prendre aux plus faibles.
- Let him be dacent, and it’s ceevil treatment he’ll get; but no man shall browbeat me on me own floor. — (Anonymous, Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and Her Irish Nurse)
- Even so, a good therapist had to push the patient, encourage the weak, and browbeat the strong; to cajole and to shame, all in the name of health; that meant taking satisfaction from the exertion and pain of others, and O’Toole could not have done that. — (Tom Clancy, Without Remorse, 1993)

Brimer, intimider (1)