Intimidate
[ɪn'tɪmɪdeɪt] or [ɪn'tɪmɪdet]
Definition
(verb.) make timid or fearful; 'Her boss intimidates her'.
(verb.) to compel or deter by or as if by threats.
Checked by Emil--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash.
Edited by Janet
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Frighten, affright, FRIGHT, alarm, scare, daunt, dismay, terrify, appall, put in fear.
Typist: Nadine
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Frighten, alarm, threaten, deter, dishearten, scare, appall, browbeat, cow
ANT:Encourage, inspirit, animate, reassure
SYN:Halve, bisect
ANT:Unite, integrate
Checker: Virgil
Definition
v.t. to make timid or fearful: to dispirit.—n. Intimidā′tion act of intimidating: use of violence or threats to influence the conduct or compel the consent of another: state of being intimidated.—adj. Intim′idatory.
Editor: Melinda
Examples
- They were trying to intimidate him--to make him flinch; each was urging the other on to some immediate act of personal violence. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Few things shook me now; few things had importance to vex, intimidate, or depress me: most things pleased--mere trifles had a charm. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Though those complaints produced no act of parliament, they had probably intimidated the company so far, as to oblige them to reform their conduct. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I am not to be intimidated into anything so wholly unreasonable. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I now stood in the empty hall; before me was the breakfast-room door, and I stopped, intimidated and trembling. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- This was stiffly resisted, the British crown was intimidated, and the Stamp Acts were repealed (1766). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The provincial people, intimidated by Gudrun's perfect sang-froid and exclusive bareness of manner, said of her: 'She is a smart woman. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And the trunk, intimidated, doubtless, by this resolute statement, gave in. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Typist: Sadie