Associations to the word «Bludgeon»

Wiktionary

BLUDGEON, noun. A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.
BLUDGEON, verb. (transitive) To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.
BLUDGEON, verb. (transitive) To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.

Dictionary definition

BLUDGEON, noun. A club used as a weapon.
BLUDGEON, verb. Overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club; "The teacher bludgeoned the students into learning the math formulas".
BLUDGEON, verb. Strike with a club or a bludgeon.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats