GULLYING Synonyms

• a belittling comment

• the act of belittling

• tending to diminish or disparage

• the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something

• noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others

• harmful to the mind or morals

• used of conduct; characterized by dishonor

• causing awareness of your shortcomings

• discouraging through fear

• aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing

• abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule

• the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances

• playful vexation

• the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb

• playfully vexing (especially by ridicule)

• arousing sexual desire without intending to satisfy it

• causing irritation or annoyance

• causing extreme terror

• threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

• darkened by clouds

• be bossy towards

• discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate

• annoy continually or chronically

• exhaust by attacking repeatedly

• atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility

• confusion characterized by lack of clarity

• become hazy, dull, or cloudy

• harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions

• any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears

• someone who is morally reprehensible

• pursue or chase relentlessly

• come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority

• cause to suffer

• cause to suffer

• increase the pressure on a gas or liquid

• maintain a certain pressure

• increase the pressure in or of

• unbearable physical pain

• extreme mental distress

• intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

• a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented

• a severe affliction

• the act of harassing someone

• torment emotionally or mentally

• treat cruelly

• subject to torture

• rule a country as a tyrant

• rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner

• make a victim of

• punish unjustly

• deprive of by deceit