1HITto hit someone several times with something heavy 用重物连击〔某人〕
He was bludgeoned to death with a hammer.
他被人用锤子连续重击致死。
2FORCE somebody TO DO somethingto force someone to do something by making threats or arguing with them 强迫,威胁〔某人做某事〕
bludgeon into
I won’t let myself be bludgeoned into marriage.
我决不会让自己在别人的强迫下结婚。
3.bludgeon your way through/to/past etc somebody/somethingto get somewhere, or achieve something, by pushingpast other people or not caring about them 用力推开某人/某物走过去;为达到目的而不顾某人/某物
Examples from the Corpus
bludgeon• After an hour our man was still bludgeoning away.• There they bludgeoned him with clubs and guns and left him for dead.• Instead of being coerced or bludgeoned into submission, the CelticChurch was simply subsumed.• On the other hand, by refraining from identifying himself he risked being bludgeoned or arrested.• She is deeply angry about this and her approach is to bludgeon the tar out of him.• It came forward with these proposals, and it has attempted to bludgeon them through the House.• Ruddock had been bludgeoned to death in his beach-side home.