Bullying

Definition

bully /'bƱli/ n အႏိုင္က်င့္သူ။ ဗိုလ္က်သူ။ ႏိုင္ရာစား။ Leave that little girl alone, you big bully! v ( pt, pp bullied ) အႏိုင္က်င့္သည္။ ဗိုလ္က်သည္။ ႏိုင္ရာ စားသည္။ The older boys bullied him at school. ❍ a small country bullied by its powerful neighbour. ❏ bully-boy n ( Brit ) ေၾကးစားလူမိုက္။ bully-boy tactics. ❏ bully for sb [ IDM ] ( infml esp ironic ) တယ္ေတာ္ပါလား။ You've solved the puzzle at last? Well, bully for you! ❏ bullying n [U] ႀကီးႏိုင္ငယ္ညႇဥ္း။ There was a lot of bullying at my school. ❏ bully sb into doing sth [ PHRV ] ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္ အႏိုင္က်င့္ၿပီး လုပ္ခိုင္းသည္။ The manager tried to bully his men into working harder by threatening them with dismissal.

Examples

1. In one study 75 per cent of students reported having been bullied at school.
2. The government accused the company of bullying its rivals and stifling competition.
3. [bully someone into (doing) something] : We will not be bullied into accepting an agreement that we do not like.