Intimidation - English meaning

adjective

Worrying or disturbing.

Usage examples:

Our countryside is disappearing at an alarming rate

verb

Make (someone) feel frightened, disturbed, or in danger.

verb

Intimidate (someone), typically into doing something, with stern or abusive words.

Usage examples:

A witness is being browbeaten under cross-examination

verb

To ask or demand continually that someone do something

Usage examples:

He objected that mcdonald was browbeating the witness.

verb

Seek to harm, intimidate, or coerce (someone perceived as vulnerable).

Usage examples:

Her 11- year-old son has been constantly bullied at school

verb

(in field hockey) start play with a bully.

Usage examples:

The match bullies off at 3 p.m.

noun

A person who habitually seeks to harm or intimidate those whom they perceive as vulnerable.

Usage examples:

He is a ranting, domineering bully

verb

Cause (someone) to submit to one's wishes by intimidation.

Usage examples:

The intellectuals had been cowed into silence

noun

A fully grown female animal of a domesticated breed of ox, kept to produce milk or beef.

Usage examples:

A dairy cow

noun

An unpleasant or disliked woman.

Usage examples:

What does he see in that cow?

adjective

Seeming difficult to deal with in prospect; intimidating.

Usage examples:

A daunting task

verb

Make (someone) feel intimidated or apprehensive.

Usage examples:

Some people are daunted by technology

adjective

Making you feel slightly frightened or worried about your ability to achieve something

Usage examples:

The country was faced with the daunting prospect of overcoming four decades of division.

adjective

Asserting one's will over another in an arrogant way.

Usage examples:

How can i do my job with a domineering boss yelling in my ear?

verb

Assert one's will over another in an arrogant way.

Usage examples:

She doesn't domineer, preferring to lead by inspiration rather than by intimidation

adjective

Making someone afraid or anxious; terrifying.

Usage examples:

A frightening experience

verb

Make (someone) afraid or anxious.

Usage examples:

The savagery of his thoughts frightened him

adjective

Making you feel fear

Usage examples:

A frightening situation, my car insurance payments are frightening., his heart rate changed frighte…

adjective

Suggesting the presence of danger; threatening.

Usage examples:

Our officers encountered menacing looks from teenagers

verb

Be a threat or possible danger to.

Usage examples:

Africa's elephants are still menaced by poaching

adjective

Making you think that someone is going to do something bad

Usage examples:

A menacing look/gesture

verb

Attempt to persuade or coerce (someone) into doing something.

Usage examples:

It might be possible to pressure him into resigning

noun

Continuous physical force exerted on or against an object by something in contact with it.

Usage examples:

The gate was buckling under the pressure of the crowd outside

noun

The use of persuasion or intimidation to make someone do something.

Usage examples:

Backbenchers put pressure on the government to provide safeguards

verb

Produce or maintain raised pressure artificially in (a gas or its container).

Usage examples:

The mixture was pressurized to 1,900 atmospheres

verb

Cause great fear or nervousness in; frighten.

Usage examples:

I was scared stiff

noun

A mark left on the skin or within body tissue where a wound, burn, or sore has not healed completely and fibrous connective tissue has developed.

Usage examples:

A faint scar ran the length of his left cheek

noun

A steep high cliff or rock outcrop, especially of limestone.

Usage examples:

High limestone scars bordered the road

verb

Overcome, quieten, or bring under control (a feeling or person).

Usage examples:

She managed to subdue an instinct to applaud

adjective

Causing extreme fear.

Usage examples:

The terrifying events of the past few weeks

verb

Cause to feel extreme fear.

Usage examples:

The thought terrifies me

adjective

Very frightening

Usage examples:

A terrifying experience/ordeal

verb

Create and maintain a state of extreme fear and distress in (someone); fill with terror.

Usage examples:

He used his private army to terrorize the population

verb

Present participle of terrorize

Usage examples:

Street gangs have been terrorizing the neighbourhood.

adjective

Having a hostile or deliberately frightening quality or manner.

Usage examples:

Her mother had received a threatening letter

verb

State one's intention to take hostile action against (someone) in retribution for something done or not done.

Usage examples:

How dare you threaten me?

adjective

Expressing the possibility that something unwanted or unpleasant will happen

Usage examples:

Threatening skies meant a storm was coming., she received several threatening phone calls after her…

adjective

Causing one to lose courage or confidence; disconcerting.

Usage examples:

An unnerving experience

verb

Make (someone) lose courage or confidence.

Usage examples:

The journey over the bridge had unnerved me

adjective

Making someone feel less confident and slightly frightened

Usage examples:

Meeting a twin brother i didn't know i had was an unnerving experience., he has an unnerving habit …