intimidation

English

Etymology

From French intimidation, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  as if *intimidatio, from intimidare (“to intimidate”); see intimidate.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

intimidation (countable and uncountable, plural intimidations)

1. The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated
   • 1920, Warren G. Harding, Liberty Under the Law

     It broadly includes all the people with specific recognition for none, and the highest consecration we can make today is a committal of the Republican party to that saving constitutionalism which contemplates all America as one people and holds just government free from influence on the one hand, and unmoved by intimidation on the other.

Related terms

• intimidate
• intimidating
• intimidatingly

Translations

act of making timid or fearful

• Bulgarian: сплашване n (splašvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 恐嚇／恐吓 (zh) (kǒnghè), 恐吓 (zh) (kǒnghè), 威嚇／威吓 (zh), 威吓 (zh) (wēihè), 脅迫／胁迫 (zh) (xiépò), 胁迫 (zh) (xiépò)

• Czech: zastrašování n
• Dutch: intimidatie (nl)
• Finnish: pelottelu (fi)
• French: intimidation (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Einschüchterung f
• Hungarian: megfélemlítés
• Indonesian: intimidasi (id)
• Japanese: 脅迫 (ja) (きょうはく, kyōhaku), 脅威 (ja) (きょうい, kyōi), 恫喝 (ja) (どうかつ, dōkatsu)
• Russian: запу́гивание (ru) n (zapúgivanije), устраше́ние (ru) n (ustrašénije)
• Telugu: బెదిరింపు (te) (bedirimpu)

References

• “intimidation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “intimidation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Pronunciation

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Noun

intimidation f (plural intimidations)

1. intimidation