bell notificationshomepageloginedit profileclubsdmBox

Search word meanings:

Word Meanings - BOYCOTT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BOYCOTT)

Related words: (words related to BOYCOTT)

  • BOYCOTT
    To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott.
  • BOYCOTTER
    A participant in boycotting.
  • BROWBEATING
    The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, suspercilious manners, or confident assertions. The imperious browbeating and scorn of great men. L'Estrange.
  • BULLDOZE
    To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana.
  • INTIMIDATE
    To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson. Syn. -- To dishearten; dispirit; abash;
  • BULLY; BULLY BEEF
    Pickled or canned beef. (more info) boil. See Boil, v. The word bouilli was formerly commonly used on the
  • OVERBEAR
    1. To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress. The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war. Bacon. Overborne with weight the Cyprians
  • BULLY TREE
    The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceæ, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha.
  • BULLY
    bullerbrook, a blusterer, D. bulderaar a bluster, bulderen to bluster; prob. of imitative origin; or cf. MHG. buole lover, G. 1. A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent,
  • BROWBEAT
    To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses. My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten.
  • OVERAWE
    To awe exceedingly; to subjugate or restrain by awe or great fear. The king was present in person to overlook the magistrates, and overawe these subjects with the terror of his sword. Spenser.
  • BULLYRAG
    See BULLIRAG
  • BULLYROCK
    A bully. Shak.
  • OVERBEARING
    1. Overpowering; subduing; repressing. I. Watts. 2. Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent. --O`ver*bear"ing*ly, adv. -- O`ver*bear"ing*ness, n.
  • BULLDOZER
    One who bulldozes.
  • BOYCOTTISM
    Methods of boycotters.

Trending!

 

Back to top