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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
BROW'BEATEN, pp. Overborne by impudence.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Browbeat Brow"beat`, v. t. [imp. Browbeat; p. p. Browbeaten; p. pr. & vb. n. Browbeating.] To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses. My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten. --W. Irving.
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
see browbeat
