Hectored - перевод на Русский и значение в Английском

noun

A heavily built omnivorous nocturnal mammal of the weasel family, typically having a grey and black coat.

Примеры использования:

They do, however, both belong to the same mustelidae family which also encompasses badgers, skunks …

verb

Repeatedly ask (someone) to do something; pester.

Примеры использования:

Tom had finally badgered her into going

noun

An animal that digs holes in the ground, where it lives, and comes out at night to feed

Примеры использования:

He badgered officials at the american embassy to help.

verb

Intimidate (someone), typically into doing something, with stern or abusive words.

Примеры использования:

A witness is being browbeaten under cross-examination

verb

To ask or demand continually that someone do something

Примеры использования:

He objected that mcdonald was browbeating the witness.

verb

To try to force someone to do something by threatening them or persuading them forcefully and unfairly

Примеры использования:

Be browbeaten into something/doing something don't be browbeaten into working more hours than you w…

verb

Clear (ground) or destroy (buildings, trees, etc.) with a bulldozer.

Примеры использования:

Developers are bulldozing the site

verb

To destroy buildings and make an area flat with a bulldozer

Примеры использования:

The township was bulldozed in the 1950s.

verb

To force someone to do something, although they might not want to

Примеры использования:

Bulldoze someone into something/doing something she bulldozed her daughter into buying a new dress.…

noun

A person who habitually seeks to harm or intimidate those whom they perceive as vulnerable.

Примеры использования:

He is a ranting, domineering bully

verb

Seek to harm, intimidate, or coerce (someone perceived as vulnerable).

Примеры использования:

Her 11- year-old son has been constantly bullied at school

adjective

Very good; excellent.

Примеры использования:

The statue really looked bully

verb

Tell (someone) repeatedly to do something.

Примеры использования:

An association which chivvies government into action

verb

To encourage someone to do something they do not want to do

Примеры использования:

He kept putting off writing the report so i had to chivvy him along., i had to chivvy him into writ…

verb

Persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats.

Примеры использования:

He was coerced into giving evidence

verb

To persuade someone forcefully to do something that he or she may not want to do

Примеры использования:

I don’t think anybody should be coerced into leaving., they used threats and coercion to keep the o…

verb

To persuade someone forcefully to do something that they are unwilling to do

Примеры использования:

Be coerced into the court heard that the six defendants had been coerced into making a confession.

noun

A fully grown female animal of a domesticated breed of ox, kept to produce milk or beef.

Примеры использования:

A dairy cow

verb

Cause (someone) to submit to one's wishes by intimidation.

Примеры использования:

The intellectuals had been cowed into silence

noun

Female of domestic cattle

noun

A member of any of several cavalry regiments in the british army.

Примеры использования:

From the calibre of those we recover we can tell whether they were fired by musketeers, cavalry, dr…

verb

Coerce (someone) into doing something.

Примеры использования:

She had been dragooned into helping with the housework

noun

In the past, a soldier who rode on a horse and carried a gun

verb

Subject to aggressive pressure or intimidation.

Примеры использования:

Being harassed at work can leave you feeling confused and helpless

verb

Annoy continually or chronically

verb

To annoy or trouble someone repeatedly

Примеры использования:

He claimed that the police continued to harass foreign journalists., she felt she was being harasse…

verb

Frighten or overawe (someone), especially in order to make them do what one wants.

Примеры использования:

The forts are designed to intimidate the population

Compel or deter by or as if by threats

verb

To frighten or threaten someone, usually in order to persuade them to do something that you want them to do

Примеры использования:

They were intimidated into accepting a pay cut by the threat of losing their jobs.

noun

A person or thing that is likely to cause harm; a threat or danger.

Примеры использования:

A new initiative aimed at beating the menace of drugs

verb

Be a threat or possible danger to.

Примеры использования:

Africa's elephants are still menaced by poaching

noun

Danger, or someone or something that is likely to cause harm

Примеры использования:

[ u ] there was an air of controlled menace about him., [ c ] that boy is a menace to himself and h…

noun

A contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of buboes (bubonic plague) and sometimes infection of the lungs (pneumonic plague).

Примеры использования:

Person-to-person spread of bubonic or septicemic plague does not occur; however, pneumonic plague i…

verb

A contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of buboes ( bubonic plague ) and sometimes infection of the lungs ( pneumonic plague ).

verb

To cause someone or something difficulty or suffering, esp. repeatedly or continually

Примеры использования:

Financial problems have been plaguing the company., that pain in my shoulder is plaguing me again.,…

verb

Produce or maintain raised pressure artificially in (a gas or its container).

Примеры использования:

The mixture was pressurized to 1,900 atmospheres

verb

To keep the air pressure in a submarine, plane, etc. at a level that is suitable for breathing

Примеры использования:

He was pressurized into signing the agreement.

noun

A track or set of tracks made of steel rails along which passenger and freight trains run; a railway.

Примеры использования:

His uncle works on the railroad

verb

Rush or coerce (someone) into doing something.

Примеры использования:

She hesitated, unwilling to be railroaded into a decision

noun

A system of transportation using special vehicles whose wheels turn on metal bars fixed to the ground, or a particular company using such a system

Примеры использования:

Railroad tracks, a railroad station, the pennsylvania railroad, we feel that our client was railroa…

adjective

To do what you want without giving any attention to other people or their wishes

Примеры использования:

They accused the government of riding roughshod over parliamentary procedure., the prime minister r…

adjective

Disapproving involving force and threats to get people to do something

Примеры использования:

The curfew is just another of the city's strong-arm policies.

verb

State one's intention to take hostile action against (someone) in retribution for something done or not done.

Примеры использования:

How dare you threaten me?

verb

Utter intentions of injury or punishment against

verb

To tell someone that you will hurt or harm him or her, esp. if the person does not do something in particular

Примеры использования:

[ i ] they threatened to drop him from the team if he didn’t come to practice., [ t ] don’t threate…

noun

Severe physical or mental suffering.

Примеры использования:

Their deaths have left both families in torment

verb

Cause to experience severe mental or physical suffering.

Примеры использования:

He was tormented by jealousy

noun

Great mental or physical suffering, or something that causes such pain

Примеры использования:

[ u ] after three days of torment, she went to a dentist., [ c ] that child acts like it’s a tormen…