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plural bludgeons
A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end. examples
third-person singular simple present bludgeons, present participle bludgeoning, simple past and past participle bludgeoned
(transitive) To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club. quotations examples
They didn't get shot to death in hold-ups, strangled to death in rapes, stabbed to death in saloons, bludgeoned to death with axes by parents or children or die summarily by some other act of God.
1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, page 168
Thomas Briggs, a senior bank clerk in the City, lived in Hackney, and on 9 July 1864 he was returning there by train from Fenchurch Street after a Saturday spent at work when he was bludgeoned to death in a first-class carriage, probably by a young German tailor named Franz Müller. (Let's hope it was Müller, because he was hanged for it.) And so Briggs was an all-round pioneer: an early commuter and the very first victim of a railway murder.
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, pages 16–17
(transitive) To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon. quotations examples
Gianna Parasini: You've never worked in the corporate world, have you, Commander? You can't bludgeon through bureaucracy.Shepard: I can bludgeon pretty hard.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Noveria