cudgel
To strike with a cudgelTo strike with a cudgel.
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Translations
1 languagesMeaning
2 sensesTo strike with a cudgel.
The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters.
strike with a cudgel
To exercise (one's wits or brains) in an effort to force a memory or solution; to rack (one's mind).
Origin
From Middle English kuggel, from Old English cyċġel (“a large stick, cudgel”), from Proto-From Middle English kuggel, from Old English cyċġel (“a large stick, cudgel”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuggil, from Proto-Germanic *kuggilaz (“a knobbed instrument”), derivative of Proto-Germanic *kuggǭ (“cog, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewgʰ- (“swelling, bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”), equivalent to cog + -el (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch coghele (“a stick with a rounded end”).
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Forms
cudgels, cudgeling, cudgeled, cudgeledTenses
cudgel · cudgeled · will cudgel · have cudgeledSynonyms
1 synonyms- strike with a cudgel:fustigate
Word family
5 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
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