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Another word for badger

Verb

  1. To trouble persistently from or as if from all sides

    2. See also:

    attack

  2. To torment with persistent insult or ridicule

    3. Idioms:
    See also:

    treat well

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Another word for badger

Verb
    2. See also:

    bait

    bother

    bait

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Sentence Examples

  • The badger does not usually seek to attack, but, when driven to bay, its great muscular power and tough hide render it a formidable antagonist.

  • In eastern Persia this species is replaced by the Persian badger (M.

  • P. Badger, Nestorians and their Rituals (London, 1852); M.

  • In these plains the fox is most abundant, and the badger and hedgehog are found.

  • P. Badger visited the chief Jacobite centres, their numbers in all Turkey had dwindled to about ioo,000 souls, owing to vast secessions to Rome.

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