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BULLYING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("bullying" is a kind of...):
aggression (deliberately unfriendly behavior)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bullying"):
frightening; terrorisation; terrorization (the act of inspiring with fear)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others
Synonyms:
blustery; bullying
Classified under:
Similar:
domineering (tending to domineer)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb bully
Context examples:
He did not know that the Transcontinental had been staggering along precariously for years, that it was a fourth-rater, or tenth-rater, without standing, with a crazy circulation that partly rested on petty bullying and partly on patriotic appealing, and with advertisements that were scarcely more than charitable donations.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
For some, the effects of bullying last a lifetime.
(Bullying, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
But bullying is harmful.
(Bullying, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
