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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others [syn: blustery, bullying] n
1: the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something [syn: bullying, intimidation]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bully Bul"ly, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bullied; p. pr. & vb. n. Bullying.] To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward. For the last fortnight there have been prodigious shoals of volunteers gone over to bully the French, upon hearing the peace was just signing. --Tatler. Syn: To bluster; swagger; hector; domineer.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see bully

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. Blustering, swaggering, vaporing, vaunting, hectoring, bluff, gruff, bearish. II. n. Bluster, swagger, fanfaronade, gasconade, vaporing, hectoring, fire-eating, mock-heroics, browbeating, domineering.