0 past simple and past participle of bully --
1 to hurt or frighten someone, often over a period of time, and often forcing that person to do something they do not want to do: --
My staff have been bullied to the extent that one of them had to take days off with a stress-related illness.
I have been bullied and harassed by lobbyists.
It must not be bullied and bounced into that by inexcusable violence and intimidation.
If so, then she bullied in return.
Geomorphologists have been severely bullied over the last decade or so by people who say that unless they produce lots of numbers they are not real scientists.
The reports of other doctors who have witnessed bullying, though have not themselves been bullied, also suggests that bullying is not simply in the eye of the beholder.
Though a little over a third of doctors identified themselves as having been bullied, 84% of doctors had actually experienced at least one type of bullying behavior.
Likewise, because victimized boys are usually bullied by other boys, they may feel the need to take a tougher, more confrontational stance when responding to bullies.
