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cudgel
[ kuhj-uhl ]
noun
- a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
verb (used with object)
- to strike with a cudgel; beat.
cudgel
/ 藞办蕦诲萧蓹濒 /
noun
- a short stout stick used as a weapon
- take up the cudgelsoften foll byfor or on behalf of to join in a dispute, esp to defend oneself or another
verb
- tr to strike with a cudgel or similar weapon
- cudgel one's brainsto think hard about a problem
Derived Forms
- 藞肠耻诲驳别濒濒别谤, noun
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 肠耻诲驳顎侥濒路别谤 especially British, 肠耻诲顎僩别濒路濒别谤 noun
- 耻苍路肠耻诲驳顎侥濒别诲 adjective
- 耻苍路肠耻诲驳顎侥濒濒别诲 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of cudgel1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of cudgel1
Idioms and Phrases
- cudgel one's brains, to try to comprehend or remember:
I cudgeled my brains to recall her name.
- take up the cudgels, to come to the defense or aid of someone or something.
Example Sentences
Trump, meanwhile, is opposing Maine on conservative ideological grounds using federal funding as the cudgel to prevail.
None of which made it a less effective cudgel.
These are the worst Americans of all, motivated not by love of country but rather fear of newcomers, whose ways they seek to extinguish under the cloak of patriotism and the cudgel of the law.
Racial zoning policy spread across the Midwest and became a cudgel to sweep away those considered undesirable.
The left should take the Stars and Stripes back from the right, which wields it like a cudgel or wears it as gauche fashion statement a la Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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