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Перевод: bludgeon
[существительное] дубинка ; [глагол] бить дубинкой; принуждать
Тезаурус:
- Hitman Paul Buxton, 42, who used a rolling pin to bludgeon father-of-three Tony Hendley to death, was also jailed for life.
- In his country, he wrote a year ago, formally accepting a West German peace prize, "socialism was transformed long ago into just an ordinary truncheon used by certain cynical, parvenu bureaucrats to bludgeon their liberal-minded fellow-citizens from morning till night, labelling them "enemies of socialism" and "anti-socialist forces" '.
- His message was clear: his own position was paramount and as there was a malignancy risk, it was his job to persuade - or bludgeon - her into the operating room.
- However, unlike Portugal , who showed glimpses of class, the German side tried to bludgeon their way through with an ill-tempered Claus Hammer as their star.
- One can bludgeon them with facts, anecdotes and innuendoes about the ways in which land is being misused, show that even the best of intentions are misguided, and that most people who have to do with land and what it provides hold views which are wrong.
- It is a hard road to tread, though, for major loss means a frightening separation from that which gives life meaning, satisfaction and purpose, and it often brings other losses in its train that continue to bludgeon the spirit and create feelings of anxiety and insecurity.
- This had a single edge and a thick, heavy blade which could also be used as a bludgeon (the "flesh cutter" and the "bone breaker").
- As the nineteenth century progressed, German nationalism became increasingly the blunt instrument with which Austro-Hungary attempted to bludgeon Bohemia and Moravia into quiescence, while in Slovakia the Hungarian ruling caste pursued a policy of Magyarisation.
- Bush then used the resolution to bludgeon the US Congress into approving his war.
- A brilliant polemical writer, he overwhelmed his opponents (heretics, Jews, pagans, and, after he became a Montanist, orthodox bishops) with a combination of rapier and bludgeon.
- He took the view that mass searches were fine for discovering the hidden body of a murdered child, or even a murder weapon like a knife, gun or bludgeon.
- The American attacks on Iraq, it said, were intended to "bludgeon the Iraqi people and the Arab world, to force them to submit to Israeli arrogance."
- His text is singularly free from psychobabble, refreshingly unpatronizing, and - unlike most other historians of sexuality - he seeks neither to bludgeon nor to manipulate his readers.
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