Crossword clues for intimidate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intimidate \In*tim"i*date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intimidated; p. pr. & vb. n. Intimidating.] [LL. intimidatus, p. p. of intimidare to frighten; pref. in- in + timidus fearful, timid: cf. F. intimider. See Timid.] To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash.
Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast,
Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.
--Johnson.
Syn: To dishearten; dispirit; abash; deter; frighten; terrify; daunt; cow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make timid or fearful; to inspire or affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. 2 (context transitive English) To impress, amaze, excite or induce extraordinary affection in others toward oneself.
WordNet
v. make timid or fearful; "Her boss intimidates her"
to compel or deter by or as if by threats [syn: restrain]
Usage examples of "intimidate".
When Adams said he refused to be intimidated by party passions, Wolcott threatened to resign.
Ryder played the spotlight along the bank, hoping to intimidate the Ansar marksmen or, at least, to illuminate them so that his own crew could return fire more accurately.
Consequently, his relations to the wooers are newly exacerbated, particularly with Antinous, the most intimidating of the lot, who is only a little older than Telemachus but just old enough actually to remember Odysseus from his own childhood.
Anastasius pretended to check the timbers and shoring, while Valentinian gave the Bihari miners and their remaining Ye-tai guards that level and dark-eyed stare that could intimidate a demon.
The rally was being organized by Claude Richards, the father of Weston, and it was his goal to intimidate the guilty parties within Bonita Vista--the people who had made the decision to lay out the poison and the people who had actually done the deed--into giving themselves up.
It was an awesome look, an intimidating look, the look of not only Jordan but also one of those wrestlers who has built himself up into a brute of sheer muscle and testosteronethe shaved head, the powerful neck, the bulging shrink-wrapped traps, delts, pecs, lats, and the rest of it.
Like other outlaw motorcycle gangs, they spare no money or effort to intimidate witnesses or tamper with juries to stay out of jail.
The larger gangs move into the cities, such as Montreal, only to find that they are safer from prosecution in towns and villages where police forces are small and easily intimidated.
He is intimidated even by the tea house boy, let alone the arrogant gateman, and all but falls on his face before the Old Mistress.
Grail of Jacksonian foreign policy: a weapons system that defends this nation while intimidating all others, and that would allow the United States to control events around the world without risking the lives of its citizen soldiers.
Besides, whilst the Knight of Lemonwood might intimidate a petty lord, he did not have the strength to sway the Prince of Dorne.
Besides, whilst the Knight of Lemonwood might intimidate a petty lord, he did not have the strength to sway the Prince of Dome.
They had a look of health and of exigence: one felt that no distant country would intimidate them, no contingency give them anxiety, no moment dare remain unfulfilled.
Like many Manhattanites, I find automobiles baffling, even intimidating.
Mven Mass recalled that the same thing had been reported over the Great Circle about other inhabited worlds where the highest achievements of science were used to intimidate, for torture and punishment, for thought-reading and turning the masses into obedient semi-idiots ever ready to fulfil the most monstrous orders.