English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin intimidatus, past participle of intimidare (“to make afraid”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin in (“in”) + timidus (“afraid, timid”); see timid.
Pronunciation
Verb
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- (transitive) To make timid or afraid; to cause to feel fear or nervousness; to deter, especially by threats of violence
- He's trying to intimidate you. If you ignore him, hopefully he'll stop.
- Synonym: abash
Synonyms
Translations
to make timid or fearful
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: сплашвам (bg) (splašvam)
- Catalan: intimidar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 威脅／威胁 (zh) (wēixié), 威胁 (zh) (wēixié), 恐嚇／恐吓 (zh) (kǒnghè), 恐吓 (zh) (kǒnghè)
- Czech: zastrašovat
- Danish: skræmme (da)
- Dutch: intimideren (nl), inschuchteren
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: pelotella (fi)
- French: intimider (fr)
- Galician: intimidar (gl)
- Georgian: დაშინება (dašineba)
- German: einschüchtern (de)
- Hungarian: megfélemlít (hu)
- (deprecated template usage)
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- Ido: timidigar (io)
- Japanese: 脅す (ja) (おどす, odosu)
- Maori: whakaweti, whakahakahaka
- Mongolian: айлгах (mn) (ajlgax)
- Occitan: intimidar
- Portuguese: intimidar (pt), amedrontar (pt)
- Russian: пуга́ть (ru) impf (pugátʹ), испуга́ть (ru) pf (ispugátʹ), запу́гивать (ru) impf (zapúgivatʹ), запуга́ть (ru) pf (zapugátʹ), устраша́ть (ru) impf (ustrašátʹ), устраши́ть (ru) pf (ustrašítʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: за̀страшити
- Roman: zàstrašiti (sh)
- Spanish: intimidar (es), amedrentar (es)
- Swedish: skrämma (sv)
- Telugu: బెదిరించు (te) (bediriñcu), భయపెట్టు (te) (bhayapeṭṭu)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
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References
- “intimidate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “intimidate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
