MEANING
To strike someone repeatedly or heavily with a blunt object.
Use it for
Blunt injuries; close violent struggle; coercion that feels physically oppressiveChoose it when the weight and repeated impact of an attack matter.
Words that belong together
- bludgeon to death
- bludgeoned with a pipe
- bludgeon into submission
On the page
The victim had been bludgeoned in the stairwell.
He raised the pipe as if to bludgeon the locked door open.
The interrogator tried to bludgeon her into agreement with the same question.
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Word forms
- Base
- bludgeon / bludgeons
- Past tense
- bludgeoned
- Past participle
- bludgeoned
- Present participle
- bludgeoning
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- bludgeon / bludgeons
- Present continuous
- am/is/are bludgeoning
- Present perfect
- have/has bludgeoned
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been bludgeoning
- Past
- bludgeoned
- Past continuous
- was/were bludgeoning
- Past perfect
- had bludgeoned
- Past perfect continuous
- had been bludgeoning
- Future
- will bludgeon / bludgeons
- Future continuous
- will be bludgeoning
- Future perfect
- will have bludgeoned
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been bludgeoning
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Names blunt-force violence, not cutting or stabbing. Figurative use suggests forcing agreement through pressure. Verb [base, third-person present, past, past participle, -ing]: bludgeon, bludgeons, bludgeoned, bludgeoned, bludgeoning.
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