variants
also ballyragged
as in intimidated
to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats
anonymous trolls on the website tried to bullyrag him into backing down
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But at their first practice sessions with such elite teams, the siblings were intimidated by being on the same ice as the champion couples and instinctively stuck by the boards.—
Alice Park, Time, 5 Jan. 2026
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The Arizona senator said at the time he would not be intimidated by the administration.—
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For the second game running, Omari Hutchinson was too easily bullied off the ball in a dangerous area.—
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By the time Zoe turns up dead, stabbed to death in her bathtub, Anna begins to put the pieces together that Lexi, her work nemesis, is actually Catherine—the girl her friends had bullied at school.—
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And my father—lovable but imposing, a strapping six feet three inches tall with a thick, bristly mustache and a rumbling Sergeant Schultz accent that frightened my friends half to death—loved to tell stories.—
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Fortune had reported in its investigation that people within the agency were frightened of examining Boring Company after two staffers who worked on the case had been disciplined.—
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What really scared me was telling my audience.—
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That caption scared me for a minute.—
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“Bullyragged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bullyragged. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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