Definition of "browbeat"

browbeat

/ˈbɹaʊ.biːt/

verb
third-person singular simple present browbeats, present participle browbeating, simple past browbeat, past participle browbeaten
1. (transitive) To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.
  Quotations
  Dudley Fitts reared far back, pronouncing her [Laura Riding] with “few equals” when it came to “browbeating an audience into conviction by sheer force of arrogance, among any poets living or dead.”
  1993 November 28, Carol Muske, quoting Dudley Fitts, “Laura Riding Roughshod”, in The New York Times‎