verb
- to beat or strike repeatedly with a cudgel or club
Usage: archaic; literary
Examples
- The guards threatened to becudgel anyone who dared to resist.
- In the old tale, the villain was becudgeled by an angry mob.
- He was becudgeled senseless during the brutal attack.
- The soldiers becudgeled their prisoners without mercy.
- The ruffians becudgeled him until he could no longer stand.