I happened to witness the bullying in the corridor.
Source: tatoeba (18136)
Bullying
//ˈbʊ.li.ɪŋ//
Synonyms for "bullying" (46 found)
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Strong matches (13)
Adjective(1 words)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (23)
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6 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
104 translations across 34 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- إِرْهَاب noun (act of intimidating a person)
- تَنَمُّر noun (act of intimidating a person)
- تَنَمُّر noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Armenian
2 entries- ահաբեկում noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- ահաբեկչություն noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- zorbalıq noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Belarusian
2 entries- бу́лінг noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- цкава́нне noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Bulgarian
2 entries- поти́скане noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- тормо́з noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 恃強凌弱 noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- 恃強欺弱 /恃强欺弱 noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- 欺凌 noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- 欺負 /欺负 noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Czech
4 entries- šikana noun (act of intimidating a person)
- šikana noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- šikanování noun (act of intimidating a person)
- šikanování noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Danish
1 entries- mobning noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Esperanto
2 entries- ĉikanado noun (act of intimidating a person)
- ĉikanado noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Finnish
3 entries- kiusaaminen noun (act of intimidating a person)
- kiusaaminen noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- pakottaminen noun (act of intimidating a person)
French
2 entries- harcèlement noun (act of intimidating a person)
- harcèlement noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Georgian
4 entries- ბულინგი noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- დაშინება noun (act of intimidating a person)
- დაშინება noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- დევნა noun (act of intimidating a person)
German
4 entries- Drangsalieren noun (act of intimidating a person)
- Drangsalieren noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- Mobben noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- Mobbing noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Greek
1 entries- νταηλίκι noun (act of intimidating a person)
Greenlandic
1 entries- malersuineq noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Icelandic
1 entries- einelti noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Irish
2 entries- bulaíocht noun (act of intimidating a person)
- bulaíocht noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Italian
1 entries- bullismo noun (act of intimidating a person)
Japanese
3 entries- いじめ noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- 嫌がらせ noun (act of intimidating a person)
- 嫌がらせ noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Korean
4 entries- 괴롭힘 noun (act of intimidating a person)
- 괴롭힘 noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- 이지메 noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- 핍박 noun (act of intimidating a person)
Latvian
1 entries- ņirgāšanās noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Macedonian
2 entries- задевање noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- застрашување noun (act of intimidating a person)
Persian
1 entries- قلدری noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Polish
3 entries- bullying noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- znęcanie się noun (act of intimidating a person)
- znęcanie się noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Portuguese
4 entries- abuso noun (act of intimidating a person)
- assédio noun (act of intimidating a person)
- bullying noun (act of intimidating a person)
- bullying noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Russian
4 entries- бу́ллинг noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- дедовщи́на noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- задира́ние noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- запу́гивание noun (act of intimidating a person)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- burraidheachd noun (act of intimidating a person)
- burraidheachd noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- vršnjačko nasilje noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Slovak
2 entries- šikanovanie noun (act of intimidating a person)
- šikanovanie noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Slovene
1 entries- ustrahovanje noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Spanish
4 entries- acoso noun (act of intimidating a person)
- buleo noun (act of intimidating a person)
- buleo noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- bullying noun (act of intimidating a person)
Swedish
1 entries- mobbning noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Turkish
1 entries- zorbalık noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Ukrainian
4 entries- бу́лінг noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- знуща́ння noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
- знущання noun (act of intimidating a person)
- цькува́ння noun (persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
That big boy is bullying the little children.
Source: tatoeba (67998)
In junior high and high schools, they say insidious forms of bullying are on the rise.
Source: tatoeba (277473)
Suicides of high school students as a result of bullying continued one after another.
Source: tatoeba (280309)
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