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Intimidation   /ɪntˌɪmɪdˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Intimidation

noun
1.
The act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something.  Synonym: bullying.
2.
The feeling of discouragement in the face of someone's superior fame or wealth or status etc..
3.
The feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid.
4.
A communication that makes you afraid to try something.  Synonyms: determent, deterrence.





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"Intimidation" Quotes from Famous Books



... were made to the memories of the past; how they hunted and played together, and searched for birds' nests in the rotten peach trees, and when the colored people were not to be caught by such chaff, some were trying to force them into submission by intimidation and starvation." ...
— Minnie's Sacrifice • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
... is not a mere empty scarecrow, designed to terrify me, to punish me through fear and intimidation, to humiliate me, that he may then raise me ...
— Egmont - A Tragedy In Five Acts • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
... closing of the Government depots; the large quantities of corn which they saw sent daily to England, whilst they who raised it starved, were amongst the chief causes which excited the people to acts of intimidation. In several instances they went in formidable bodies to the presentment sessions, apparently under the impression that the ratepayers, there assembled, had something to do with fixing the amount of wages, which of course was a popular error. On Monday, the 28th of September, a special ...
— The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) - With Notices Of Earlier Irish Famines • John O'Rourke
... rifle in readiness, though he only intended it as a means of intimidation, and would not have fired at the burglar except to save his own life. But the sight of the weapon was enough for the tramp. He crouched motionless. His own light had gone out, but by the gleam of the electric he carried Tom could see that ...
— Tom Swift and his Motor-cycle • Victor Appleton
... a threat?" inquired Quarrier, showing the edges of his well-kept teeth. "Is this intimidation, Mr. Siward? Do I understand that you are proposing to bespatter others with scandal unless I am frightened into going to the governors with the flimsy excuse you attempt to offer me? In other words, Mr. Siward, are you bent on making ...
— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers


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