Simple past tense and past participle of cudgel.(verb)
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Use "cudgeled" in a sentence
"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."