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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

霸凌者

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bà líng zhě

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Bully/ˈbʊl.i/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #3500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"学校正在采取措施惩罚霸凌者。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person who habitually uses strength or power to coerce, intimidate, or harm those who are weaker.

    "The school counselor intervened to stop the older boys from acting like bullies on the playground."
As verb
  1. 1

    To use superior strength or influence to intimidate someone, typically in order to force them to do something.

    "She refused to be bullied into signing the unfair contract."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Middle Dutch word 'boele', meaning lover or brother, which gradually shifted in meaning through the 16th and 17th centuries from a term of endearment to a protector of the weak, and finally to its modern negative connotation of a tyrannical persecutor.

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