bullying
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 8
/ˈbʊ.li.ɪŋ/
Definition of bullying
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)An act of intimidating a person to do something, especially such repeated coercion.
“[Greenland's current Prime Minister Múte] Egede has insisted that Greenland is not for sale and he framed the polling partly as a referendum on Trump's seemingly bellicose bullying, saying the election was a "fateful choice."”
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noun
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(countable, uncountable)An act of intimidating a person to do something, especially such repeated coercion.
“[Greenland's current Prime Minister Múte] Egede has insisted that Greenland is not for sale and he framed the polling partly as a referendum on Trump's seemingly bellicose bullying, saying the election was a "fateful choice."”
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(countable, uncountable)Persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant for another person.
“Bullying is a punishable offense in schools.”
verb
- (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of bully
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From bully + -ing.
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