Bludgeon: alternatives and connections

exert pressure on someone through threats

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The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

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A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.

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To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.

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To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body.

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It.

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The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.

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To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…

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A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.

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A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.

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A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.

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