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badgered

/baj-er/US // ˈbædʒ ər //UK // (ˈbædʒə) //

恶言相向,恶语伤人,恶语相向,恶作剧

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
    • : the fur of this mammal.
    • : Australian. a wombat.bandicoot.
    • : a native or inhabitant of Wisconsin .
    • : a swablike device for cleaning excess mortar from the interiors of newly laid tile drains.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to harass or urge persistently; pester; nag: I had to badger him into coming with us.

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Examples

  • The producer, Jonathan Koch, doggedly badgered her into taking the part.

  • Throughout the 1970s Carter badgered the NATO allies to rearm.

  • The next season, Favre pulled the same stunt, but this time badgered the Packers into trading him to the New York Jets.

  • But we saw the same philosophy on North Korea, where he badgered the Bush administration to be tougher.

  • D'ye know why, a month ago, I badgered Newcastle into getting me a company in the Blues?

  • He had been badgered too much this morning, and this big, rather convincing looking applicant worried him.

  • Dormer is being badgered out of his mind big as he is and he hasn't intellect enough to resent it.

  • It simply means that if any member wants to badger some one in the House about the Colonies, I am the man to be badgered.

  • Stoneman pushed his way among the mob which surrounded the badgered Puritan as he attempted to retreat into the cloakroom.