bludgeon

A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.

We smashed the radio with a steel bludgeon.

To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.

The apprehended rioter was bludgeoned to death.

They didn't get shot to death in hold-ups, strangled to death in rapes, stabbed to death in saloons, bludgeoned to death with axes by parents or children or die summarily by some other act of God.

To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.

Their favorite method was bludgeoning us with the same old arguments in favor of their opinions.

Gianna Parasini: You've never worked in the corporate world, have you, Commander? You can't bludgeon through bureaucracy. Shepard: I can bludgeon pretty hard.