bludgeon

[ US /ˈbɫədʒən/ ]
[ UK /blˈʌd‍ʒən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a club used as a weapon
VERB
  1. strike with a club or a bludgeon
  2. overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club
    The teacher bludgeoned the students into learning the math formulas
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How To Use bludgeon In A Sentence

  • In 1974, Jimmy Connors, a strutting young braggart who used his racket like a cudgel, bludgeoned his way to the final of Wimbledon.
  • A wealthy businessman has been found bludgeoned to death.
  • He was bludgeoned to death with the butt of a pistol on the Caribbean island of Margarita on Sunday, October 16.
  • When I open a beer, I do not want to be reminded of grey-suited, gimlet-eyed executives bludgeoning satire into an early grave.
  • The ruling gives authoritarian regimes around the world a new bludgeon to use against news organizations as well as their own populations trying to get access to media beyond the control of state censors.
  • Walking back to the Lokosphinx, we watch Army conscripts in greatcoats and fur-flapped caps breaking the ice with bludgeons and pouring hot water on the snow.
  • In terms of state action, he says he wants the bludgeon to be replaced by the rapier.
  • Dunlea came close to adding to the try count, but was held up as he bludgeoned his way over the line.
  • Well, it's the earliest images - of independence and freedom, particularly - that do live obstinately on, despite the blessing and the bludgeoning of life's fullness.
  • Seles' game is not suited to fast grass courts and she is handicapped by her awkward two-handed volleying style, where she approaches the net as though about to bludgeon someone with a frying pan.
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