cudgeled
Hit with club
Cudgeled is the past tense of cudgel, meaning to beat with a thick stick or club.
The word appears in figurative expressions: to cudgel one's brains is to think hard about something difficult.
Also spelled cudgelled.
violence
Struck repeatedly with club
- clubbedStruck with heavy object
- beatenHaving lost a contest
- thrashedDefeated decisively
- pummeledStruck many times
battered · struck · hit · whacked · thumped · clobbered · drubbed · walloped
coercion
Urged with insistence
- forcedMade to occur unwillingly
- bulliedRepeatedly mistreated by aggressors
- browbeatenSubdued by persistent pressure
- strong-armedCoerced through force
intimidated · compelled · bludgeoned · hammered · badgered · harangued · hounded · arm-twisted
bludgeoned
Struck repeatedly with club
pummeled · battered · struck · hit · whacked · thumped · clobbered · drubbed · walloped · smacked
pressured
Urged with insistence
- forcedMade to occur unwillingly
- bulliedRepeatedly mistreated by aggressors
- browbeatenSubdued by persistent pressure
strong-armed · intimidated · compelled · bludgeoned · hammered · badgered · harangued · hounded · arm-twisted · railroaded