Definition of "broadsided" [broadsided]

• Simple past tense and past participle of broadside. (verb)

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• "U.S. 60 bypass and "broadsided" Danhauer's vehicle, who was westbound on the bypass."
• "He reached for the door, but the window hit his knuckles hard; it forced his arm back and left him to be broadsided by the door—right in the balls."
• "The shares nose-dived in the following years, as Russia was broadsided by the worst recession in more than a decade, and the shares haven't reached their offering price since."