Definition of "browbeaten" [browbeaten]

• Past participle of browbeat (verb)
• Intimidated or subjugated (adjective)

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• "When are we going break the news to blacks, Hispanics, women, and other so called browbeaten people, if you want it go after it don't wait until some steps aside for you."
• "That meant not bowing to political pressure in appointing a distributor or giving a contract to a bottler or a distiller--Uberoi would never allow himself to be browbeaten."
• "Regulators are "not about to be browbeaten into doing something just because a group of congressmen threaten them," Mr. Dodd said."