Definitions for bludgeon

bludgeon bludg·eon

Spelling: [bluhj-uh n]
IPA: /ˈblʌdʒ ən/

Bludgeon is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 280 anagrams from letters in bludgeon (bdeglnou).

Definitions for bludgeon

noun

  1. a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.

verb (used with object)

  1. to strike or knock down with a bludgeon.
  2. to force into something; coerce; bully:

Origin of bludgeon

First recorded in 1720-30; origin uncertain

Examples for bludgeon

He hit the tribesmen on the head with his bludgeon and “the subsequent proceedings interest him no more.”

The smashing of a face by an Indian's bludgeon is a serious operation.

Thereupon Panaumbe brandished his bludgeon, struck all the foxes, and killed them.

Instead, he rushed to use the firearms issue as one more tool to bludgeon and discredit his Republican opposition.

Or is it too valuable to use as a bludgeon against Republicans?

Then you bludgeon Losch with the idea it was a person Carmack had reason to fear!

The majesty of the law in his hands becomes at once a bludgeon and a pandemonium.

You are only a footpad, a simple-minded marquis of the bludgeon.

Strickland employed not the rapier of sarcasm but the bludgeon of invective.

“If Giannoulias loses, the Republicans and the mainstream media are going to bludgeon Obama,” said Anderson.

Word Value for bludgeon
Scrable

12

Words with friends

17

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