browbeatvt.

browbeat (v.)"to bully," originally "to bear down with stern or arrogant looks," 1580s, from brow + beat (v.). [I]t appears from the earliest quotations ... that the brow in question was that of the beater, not of the beaten party; but it is not evident whether the meaning was \\'to beat with one\\'s (frowning) brows,\\' or \\'to beat (?lower) one\\'s brows at.\\' [OED] Related: Browbeaten; browbeating.