The meaning of Bully

noun

A tough, uncompromising, or intimidating person.

Usage examples:

One of them is a real badass, the other's pretty friendly

adjective

Tough, uncompromising, or intimidating.

Usage examples:

A badass demeanour

noun

A bad or slightly frightening person

Usage examples:

He plays a 21-year old badass who gets into a lot of trouble., this car is pure badass., badass dru…

verb

Intimidate (someone), typically into doing something, with stern or abusive words.

Usage examples:

A witness is being browbeaten under cross-examination

verb

To ask or demand continually that someone do something

Usage examples:

He objected that mcdonald was browbeating the witness.

verb

Persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats.

Usage examples:

He was coerced into giving evidence

verb

To persuade someone forcefully to do something that he or she may not want to do

Usage examples:

I don’t think anybody should be coerced into leaving., they used threats and coercion to keep the o…

noun

A fully grown female animal of a domesticated breed of ox, kept to produce milk or beef.

Usage examples:

A dairy cow

verb

Cause (someone) to submit to one's wishes by intimidation.

Usage examples:

The intellectuals had been cowed into silence

noun

Female of domestic cattle

verb

Assert one's will over another in an arrogant way.

Usage examples:

She doesn't domineer, preferring to lead by inspiration rather than by intimidation

adjective

Of great weight; difficult to lift or move.

Usage examples:

A heavy and bulky load

noun

A thing, such as a vehicle, that is large or heavy of its kind.

Usage examples:

Meanwhile, he is leading the charge at airport to beef up the runway and expand support facilities …

adverb

Heavily.

Usage examples:

Heavy-laden

verb

Frighten or overawe (someone), especially in order to make them do what one wants.

Usage examples:

The forts are designed to intimidate the population

Compel or deter by or as if by threats

noun

A person who frightens or overawes someone, especially in order to make them do something.

Usage examples:

They won't be bullied by the noted intimidators

verb

Keep (someone) in subjection and hardship, especially by the unjust exercise of authority.

Usage examples:

A system which oppressed working people

verb

To govern people in an unfair and cruel way and prevent them from having opportunities and freedom

Usage examples:

In his speech he spoke against those who continue to oppress the poor., he's feeling oppressed by t…

noun

A person or group that oppresses people.

Usage examples:

They overthrew their colonial oppressors

noun

Someone who treats people in an unfair and cruel way and prevents them from having opportunities and freedom

Usage examples:

Sisters, we must rise up and defeat our oppressors.

verb

Subject (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs.

Usage examples:

His followers were persecuted by the authorities

verb

To treat people unfairly or cruelly over a period of time because of their race, religion, etc.

Usage examples:

She claimed the government was persecuting its opponents., political/religious persecution, given t…

noun

A person who persecutes someone, especially for their race or political or religious beliefs.

Usage examples:

He is badly scarred by his treatment at the hands of his persecutors

noun

Someone who treats a particular group of people cruelly

Usage examples:

The country's native people rose up against their persecutors., the clergy were the main persecutor…

noun

Continuous physical force exerted on or against an object by something in contact with it.

Usage examples:

The gate was buckling under the pressure of the crowd outside

verb

Attempt to persuade or coerce (someone) into doing something.

Usage examples:

It might be possible to pressure him into resigning

verb

Produce or maintain raised pressure artificially in (a gas or its container).

Usage examples:

The mixture was pressurized to 1,900 atmospheres

verb

To keep the air pressure in a submarine, plane, etc. at a level that is suitable for breathing

Usage examples:

He was pressurized into signing the agreement.

noun

A violent person, especially one involved in crime.

noun

A whip used as an instrument of punishment.

Usage examples:

Begone, or shall i be required to chastise you with the whip and the scourge once more?

verb

Whip (someone) as a punishment.

Usage examples:

Our people did scourge him severely

noun

Someone or something that causes harm, evil, or destruction

Usage examples:

Smallpox, that scourge of previous generations, now is effectively extinct.

adjective

Disapproving involving force and threats to get people to do something

Usage examples:

The curfew is just another of the city's strong-arm policies.

verb

Bring under domination or control, especially by conquest.

Usage examples:

The invaders had soon subjugated most of the population

verb

To defeat people or a country and rule them in a way that allows them no freedom

verb

To treat yourself, your wishes, or your beliefs as being less important than other people or their wishes or beliefs

Usage examples:

She subjugated herself to her mother's needs., reporters must subjugate personal political convicti…

noun

A violent person, especially a criminal.

Usage examples:

He was attacked by a gang of thugs

noun

Severe physical or mental suffering.

Usage examples:

Their deaths have left both families in torment

verb

Cause to experience severe mental or physical suffering.

Usage examples:

He was tormented by jealousy

noun

Great mental or physical suffering, or something that causes such pain

Usage examples:

[ u ] after three days of torment, she went to a dentist., [ c ] that child acts like it’s a tormen…

noun

A person who inflicts severe mental or physical suffering on someone.

Usage examples:

They help victims of domestic violence escape their tormentors

noun

Someone who causes a person or an animal great mental suffering and unhappiness, or great physical pain

Usage examples:

Victims of oppression seldom have a chance to face their tormentors., both the children have encoun…

adjective

(of a substance or object) strong enough to withstand adverse conditions or rough handling.

Usage examples:

Tough rucksacks for climbers

noun

A rough and violent man.

Usage examples:

A gang of toughs

verb

Endure a period of hardship or difficulty.

verb

Rule or treat (someone) despotically or cruelly.

Usage examples:

She tyrannized her family

verb

To treat someone cruelly, controlling everything that they do

Usage examples:

He was one of those school bullies who tyrannized the whole playground.

noun

A cruel and oppressive ruler.

Usage examples:

The tyrant was deposed by popular demonstrations

noun

A ruler who has unlimited power over other people, and uses it unfairly and cruelly

Usage examples:

Tamir, one of several sons of the exiled ruler, vowed he would liberate his country from the tyrant…