All bludgeoning synonyms

verb bludgeoning

• horrify — to cause to feel horror; strike with horror: The accident horrified us all.
• spank — to strike (a person, usually a child) with the open hand, a slipper, etc., especially on the buttocks, as in punishment.
• cow — A cow is a large female animal that is kept on farms for its milk. People sometimes refer to male and female animals of this species as cows.
• frighten — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
• bludgeon — To bludgeon someone means to hit them several times with a heavy object.
• tyrannize — to exercise absolute power or control, especially cruelly or oppressively (often followed by over).
• threaten — to utter a threat against; menace: He threatened the boy with a beating.
• bulldoze — If people bulldoze something such as a building, they knock it down using a bulldozer.
• bluster — If you say that someone is blustering, you mean that they are speaking aggressively but without authority, often because they are angry or offended.
• domineer — Assert one's will over another in an arrogant way.
• overawe — to restrain or subdue by inspiring awe; intimidate: He often uses that imperious scowl to overawe his subordinates.
• dragoon — (especially formerly) a European cavalryman of a heavily armed troop.
• overbear — to bear over or down by weight or force: With his superior strength he easily overbore his opponent in the fight.
• browbeat — If someone tries to browbeat you, they try to force you to do what they want.
• menace — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
• swagger — to walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air.
• showboat — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
• buffalo — A buffalo is a wild animal like a large cow with horns that curve upwards. Buffalo are usually found in southern and eastern Africa.
• pound — Archaic. to shut up in or as in a pound; impound; imprison.
• beat — If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
• hammer — Armand, 1898–1990, U.S. businessman and art patron.
• cudgel — A cudgel is a thick, short stick that is used as a weapon.
• clout — If you clout someone, you hit them.
• baste — If you baste meat, you pour hot fat and the juices from the meat itself over it while it is cooking.
• batter — If someone is battered, they are regularly hit and badly hurt by a member of their family or by their partner.
• blackjack — Blackjack is a card game in which players try to obtain a combination of cards worth 21 points.
• strike — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
• pommel — a knob, as on the hilt of a sword.
• cosh — A cosh is a heavy piece of rubber or metal which is used as a weapon.
• fustigate — to cudgel; beat; punish severely.
• dismay — to break down the courage of completely, as by sudden danger or trouble; dishearten thoroughly; daunt: The surprise attack dismayed the enemy.
• discomfit — to confuse and deject; disconcert: to be discomfited by a question.
• disconcert — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
• abash — to cause to feel ill at ease, embarrassed, or confused; make ashamed
• awe — Awe is the feeling of respect and amazement that you have when you are faced with something wonderful and often rather frightening.
• scare — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
• shiver — to shake or tremble with cold, fear, excitement, etc.
• hit — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
• sling — an iced alcoholic drink, typically containing gin, water, sugar, and lemon or lime juice.
• splatter — an act or instance of splattering.
• splinter — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
• cast — The cast of a play or film is all the people who act in it.
• charge — If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
• splash — to wet or soil by dashing masses or particles of water, mud, or the like; spatter: Don't splash her dress!
• destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
• crash — A crash is an accident in which a moving vehicle hits something and is damaged or destroyed.
• bait — Bait is food which you put on a hook or in a trap in order to catch fish or animals.
• dispirit — to deprive of spirit, hope, enthusiasm, etc.; depress; discourage; dishearten.
• compel — If a situation, a rule, or a person compels you to do something, they force you to do it.
• force — physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.