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Adjective bully has 1 sense
- bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing - very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"
Antonym: bad (indirect, via good)
Noun bully has 1 sense
- bully, tough, hooligan, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy, yob, yobo, yobbo - a cruel and brutal fellow
--1 is a kind of attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter
--1 has particulars:
Verb bully has 2 senses
- strong-arm, bully, browbeat, bullyrag, ballyrag, boss around, hector, push around - be bossy towards; "Her big brother always bullied her when she was young"
--1 is one way to intimidate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- browbeat, bully, swagger - discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate
--2 is one way to wheedle, cajole, palaver, blarney, coax, sweet-talk, inveigle
Sample sentences:
They bully him into writing the letter
They want to bully the prisoners
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