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bullying

US, UK/ˈbʊ.li.ɪŋ/

noun

What it means

  1. countableuncountableAn act of intimidating a person to do something, especially such repeated coercion.

    [Greenland's current Prime Minister Múte] Egede has insisted that Greenland is not for sale and he framed the polling partly as a referendum on Trump's seemingly bellicose bullying, saying the election was a "fateful choice."

    2025 March 13, Scott Neuman, Willem Marx, “https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5325949/greenland-elections-trump-independence”, in NPR
  2. countableuncountablePersistent acts intended to make life unpleasant for another person.

    Bullying is a punishable offense in schools.

In a sentence

[Greenland's current Prime Minister Múte] Egede has insisted that Greenland is not for sale and he framed the polling partly as a referendum on Trump's seemingly bellicose bullying, saying the election was a "fateful choice."

2025 March 13, Scott Neuman, Willem Marx, “https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5325949/greenland-elections-trump-independence”, in NPR

Where it comes from

From bully + -ing.

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