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strong-armingverbpresent participle of strong-arm to make timid or fearful by or as if by threatsdevelopers trying to strong-arm homeowners into selling their houses at below-market prices blackjacking, bogarting, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, bullyragging(also ballyragging), cowing, hectoring, intimidating, mau-mauing blustering, trash-talkingaffrighting, alarming(also alaruming), frightening, horrifying, scaring, shocking, spooking, startling, terrifyingmenacing, terrorizing, threateningbadgering, harassing, houndingbludgeoning, coercing, compelling, constraining, dragooning, forcing, making, obliging, pressing, pressuring, pushing arounddemoralizing, psyching (out), unmanning, unnervingdiscomposing, disconcerting, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, upsetting picking on cheering, comforting, consoling, reassuring, solacing, soothingemboldening, encouraging, heartening, steelingconvincing, persuading |