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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

bullyrag en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To harass, badger, taunt, or abuse verbally.
    • In a feat of no small symbolic value, the school bullyragged the university into shutting down a fossil fuel power plant that had formerly occupied. 2009 March 9, “Pursuing the elusive goal of a carbon-neutral building”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 16 Aug 2014:
    • But once again both sides spent as much time bullyragging one another as they did questioning witnesses. 1996 July 22, Tim Weiner, “Warnings of a Disaster in Waco Were Ignored, Witness Testifies”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Aug 2014:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
bullyragged Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bullyragged Tense=Past lexicographic
bullyragging Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bullyrags Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
ballyrag alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

bullyragger