The teacher bludgeoned the students into learning the math formulas.
Examples of bludgeon
bludgeon
But since then, the Netanyahu administration has used settlements as a bludgeon.
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You can't bludgeon a people into submission and expect to stay in power forever.
From the guardian.co.uk
He lays his ironies on with a trowel and drives his points home with a bludgeon.
From the time.com
Polemical in nature, they bludgeon readers with heated rhetoric and repetition.
From the businessweek.com
O'Connell tries to bludgeon his way over, but Wales again heroically hold him up.
From the telegraph.co.uk
They said they could not comment on what object had been used to bludgeon Castro.
From the newsday.com
Dave, who had known all along that this moment would bludgeon him, begins to cry.
From the denverpost.com
The Indianapolis 500 will pretty much bludgeon you with pageantry and patriotism.
From the al.com
Star in films that don't make us want to bludgeon our skulls in with housebricks?
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A club used as a weapon
Overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club; "The teacher bludgeoned the students into learning the math formulas"
Club: strike with a club or a bludgeon
Bludgeon is the name of several fictional characters in the Transformers universes. For trademark reasons, he is now marketed by Hasbro as Decepticon Bludgeon. They are all Decepticon warriors who turn into tanks.
A club (also known as cudgel, baton, truncheon, night stick or bludgeon) is among the simplest of all weapons. A club is essentially a short staff, or stick, usually made of wood, and wielded as a weapon.
A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end; To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club; To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon