To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses
The form browbeat is used in the present tense and is also the past tense. If someone tries to browbeat you, they try to force you to do what they want. attempts to deceive, con, or browbeat the voters When I backed out of the 100 metres, an older kid tried to browbeat me into it. + browbeaten brow·beat·en the browbeaten employees. to try to make someone do something, especially in a threatening way browbeat sb into doing sth