Definition of "bludgeoning" [bludgeoning]

• Present participle of bludgeon. (verb)
• An assault with a club or similar weapon. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "Meanwhile, the cartels have a huge investment in bludgeoning governments into following industry dictates and British home secretary Jacqui Smith, “is seriously considering taking on the role of Big Sister, seemingly planning a form of online censorship,” we said in another post."
• "Then a little later we find Hitler raising a brown-skirted and Storm Troop Army, under his personal control, and the brutalities practised by that army in bludgeoning Hitler into power are among the greatest blots on the history of human conduct."
• "I don’t even know where to begin, but the partisan bickering, namecalling, and verbal bludgeoning is destroying all faith I have in humanity and any hope I have for true democracy in this country."