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intimidate
intimidate
verb
Definition of INTIMIDATE
to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats <refusing to be intimidated by the manager's harsh stare, I demanded my money back>
Related Words bluster, trash-talk; affright, alarm (also alarum), frighten, horrify, scare, shock, spook, startle, terrify; menace, terrorize, threaten; badger, harass, hound; bludgeon, coerce, compel, constrain, dragoon, force, make, oblige, press, pressure, push around; demoralize, psych (out), unman, unnerve; discompose, disconcert, disquiet, distress, disturb, perturb, upset
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