Definition of "cudgeled" []

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

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• "They’re okay, more or less, if you can call cudgeled into stunned immobility “okay.”"
• "And while Graham exchanged reminiscences of Mokpo with her, he cudgeled his brain to try and decide whether her continual reference to her husband was deliberate."
• "Dede vainly cudgeled her brains in quest of a reply to these remarks."