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  • verb Present participle of bludgeon.
  • noun An assault with a club or similar weapon.

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Examples

  • Meanwhile, the cartels have a huge investment in bludgeoning governments into following industry dictates and British home secretary Jacqui Smith, “is seriously considering taking on the role of Big Sister, seemingly planning a form of online censorship,” we said in another post.

    ‘Email Jacqui Smith’ online protest 2009

  • Then a little later we find Hitler raising a brown-skirted and Storm Troop Army, under his personal control, and the brutalities practised by that army in bludgeoning Hitler into power are among the greatest blots on the history of human conduct.

    Canada and the British Empire 1939

  • I don’t even know where to begin, but the partisan bickering, namecalling, and verbal bludgeoning is destroying all faith I have in humanity and any hope I have for true democracy in this country.

    Think Progress » “One of the Worst Abandonments of Americans on American Soil Ever” 2005

  • Tasers are supposed to be a replacement for other and more damaging plod tactics such as bludgeoning, pepper-spraying or choking suspects into compliance, so it's important to be able to use them on meth fanciers.

    The Register Team Register 2010

  • Should Mr Andrade be found guilty of murdering Angie Zapata – of bludgeoning her to death with a fire extinguisher and leaving her for dead on the floor of her own apartment – then I hope the court will reach a verdict which adequately reflects that fact.

    Angie Zapata murder trial: accused faces habitual offender tag 2009

  • A Fairfax County jury on Tuesday convicted a Falls Church area man of capital murder for bludgeoning and sexually assaulting Genevieve Orange in 2008.

    Falls Church man Mark Lawlor convicted of capital murder of Genevieve Orange 2011

  • Redknapp's lineup, which rarely changes and has lost just one league game since that August bludgeoning by Manchester City, will have cost about $83 million.

    The London Clubs Aren't Dead Yet Matthew Futterman 2012

  • A Fairfax County jury on Tuesday convicted a Falls Church area man of capital murder in the 2008 bludgeoning and sexual assault of Genevieve Orange.

    Capital murder in woman's '08 death 2011

  • - A 17-year-old boy is accused of bludgeoning his parents with a hammer, then hosting dozens of friends for a party while their bodies lay in the bedroom, police said Monday.

    Tyler Hadley, Florida Teen, Killed Parents, Then Had A Party: Police The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • - A 17-year-old boy is accused of bludgeoning his parents with a hammer, then hosting dozens of friends for a party while their bodies lay in the bedroom, police said Monday.

    Tyler Hadley, Florida Teen, Killed Parents, Then Had A Party: Police The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

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