cudgel one's brain

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English

Alternative forms

cudgel one's brains

Verb

cudgel one's brain (third-person singular simple present cudgels one's brain, present participle (US) cudgeling one's brain or (UK) cudgelling one's brain, simple past and past participle (US) cudgeled one's brain or (UK) cudgelled one's brain)

(UK, dated, figuratively) to think hard and try to remember something.
Synonym: rack one's brain

Translations

rack one's brain — see rack one's brain

References

“cudgel your brains”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
“cudgel your brain s” (US) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
“cudgel ones brains”, in Collins English Dictionary.
“cudgel one's brain”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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