Tom was bludgeoned into paying the money. - English example sentence

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Selena777 September 2, 2014, edited September 2, 2014 September 2, 2014 at 11:39:46 AM UTC, edited September 2, 2014 at 11:40:52 AM UTC

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The construction "bludgeoned into doing something" is valid in English.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.c...glish/bludgeon
http://dictionary.cambridge.org...itish/bludgeon

"Trump said on Morning Joe that he wouldn’t pay $25 million because: (1) he wasn’t going to be bludgeoned into paying such a high amount, especially in the name of religion, and (2) because he didn’t want the current owner to be able to say afterwards that Trump was stupid for paying so much."
From here: http://realestatesolutions3d.wo...s-no-investor/

Maybe, that's not very traditional using of that word, but it's still valid.