Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of intimidating or making fearful, or the state of being intimidated; fear excited by threats or hostile acts.
- n. In law, the wrongful use of violence or a threat of violence, direct or indirect, against any person with a view to compel him to do or to abstain from doing some act which he has a legal right to do or to abstain from doing.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated; as, the voters were kept from the polls by intimidation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid
- n. the feeling of discouragement in the face of someone's superior fame or wealth or status etc.
- n. the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something
- n. a communication that makes you afraid to try something
Etymologies
- From Medieval Latin as if *intimidatio, from intimidare ("to intimidate"); see intimidate. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“That stirred up a strong reaction from Republicans who objected to what they called intimidation, after which one of the prosecutors who was quoted denied any intent to bring official charges.”
“The Conservative Party on Monday reacted to the shooting of protest marchers in Ciskei by condemning what it termed the intimidation of the Ciskei Government by the African National”
“The Conservative Party condemned what it termed the intimidation of the Ciskei Government by the ANC and the SACP.”
“Thailand's long-silent Yellow Shirt activists demanded protesters Thursday and an end to "anarchy" in the capital, a day after clashes turned a busy expressway into a television Sunday that he continued to seek a peaceful solution to the country's tense political standoff but that he would not give in to what he called intimidation gas in any fresh clashes with security forces.”
“LONDON -- The British Council said Thursday that it has suspended work in Iran because of what it calls intimidation by the authorities there.”
“The British Council said Thursday that it has suspended work in Iran because of what it calls intimidation by the authorities there.”
“The British Council said it has suspended work in Iran because of what it calls intimidation by the authorities there.”
“The British Council has suspended work in Iran because of what it described as intimidation by the authorities.”
“The British Council says it has suspended work in Iran because of what it calls intimidation by the authorities there.”
“I suspect that what you call intimidation regarding scholarship has much more to do with sheer judgmentalness and slant (which I believe underlies a lot of Lavina's case studies) than with scholarship.”
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