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What does henpecked mean?

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Adjective
  1. (husband) Intimidated or overwhelmed by a nagging or overbearing wife or girlfriend.
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Moreover, he does away with the cliché image of Hedda's husband as the prototype of the henpecked husband.
More than likely their husbands were perfectly decent, long-suffering, henpecked men.
His father, a henpecked husband, is petrified to raise a voice.
Certainly you never could have henpecked me into Congress the way you did Jim Walton!
Luciana appears near incoherent and her debonair, eloquent lover a frazzled and henpecked rube.
The old king was henpecked no doubt but his outlook was noble.

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