0 to try to force someone to do something by threatening them or persuading them forcefully and unfairly:
1 to ask or demand continually that someone do something:
Again, local committees, instead of being browbeaten, should be encouraged to go in for propaganda work.
My noble friend was not trying to browbeat anybody.
It is essential, if they are to continue this work, that they are not browbeaten by cheap imports.
They are trying to browbeat us into supporting them on it, and we will not have it.
I feel that nothing can be gained by absolutely crushing and browbeating them.
Are we going to allow ourselves to be browbeaten?
We must not allow ourselves to be browbeaten, inveigled or hammered into giving up and letting others produce what we should produce ourselves.
Although we are sympathetic to these petitions, does this not illustrate that pensioners are being browbeaten into accepting that they must now ask for charity?
