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intimidate English

Meaning intimidate meaning

What does intimidate mean?
Definitions in simple English

intimidate Verb

— To make fearful; to inspire or affect with fear; to stop or block others by threats He's trying to intimidate you. If you ignore him, hopefully he'll stop.

intimidate

— verb make timid or fearful Her boss intimidates her — verb to compel or deter by or as if by threats

Synonyms intimidate synonyms

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intimidate English » English

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Topics intimidate topics

What do people use intimidate to talk about?
Language and thought Want Influence

Threaten
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Afraid
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Afraid

Shy, timid

Conjugation intimidate conjugation

How do you conjugate intimidate?

intimidate · verb

Examples intimidate examples

How do I use intimidate in a sentence?

Simple sentences

You can't intimidate us.
Don't try to intimidate me.
I think they're trying to intimidate us.
Don't let them intimidate you.
Tom tried to intimidate Mary.
You intimidate Tom.
Don't let Tom intimidate you.
You can't intimidate me.
Don't let him intimidate you.
Don't let her intimidate you.

Movie subtitles

Newspapers hostile to Zola are permitted to threaten and intimidate the jury.
You can't intimidate us.
All I gotta do. - You needn't try to intimidate me, Mr.
You're not gonna intimidate me.
You're not going to intimidate me.
You are not going to intimidate me.
You cant intimidate me!
I hate to think what desperation has made you think that you can try to intimidate me.
If a respected boss lets some sorry blind man intimidate him, it could seriously damage his reputation.
That phase one is intended to intimidate the population to search houses, to find and arrest resistance.
Don't let disappointments intimidate you.
Use something to intimidate him.
You're trying to intimidate me.
She thinks to intimidate me, by the use of quarter hours.
You needn't try to intimidate me, Mr. - Murgatroyd to you.
Those geniuses up there think they can intimidate the Czechs. with public warnings, dopes.
Don't you try to intimidate me.
You don't intimidate me.
So you thought that if you could kidnap my wife--without my permission-- you could intimidate her into helping you to get Kastner. Was that it?
You're not gonna intimidate me. I'm entitled to my opinion.
We simply intimidate them.
Do you hear? Don't let him intimidate you!
Does that intimidate you?
You tend to intimidate people.
Daktari, I can not have you intimidate a witness.
You needn't try to intimidate me, Mr.
You can't intimidate me.
There's a police booth to intimidate him.
Do I intimidate you? Yes.
You intimidate me.
Don't let him intimidate you! Let's go. Come on!
Society women intimidate him.
You don't intimidate me. Nor my client.
But you also intimidate me - this is even more incomprehensible - because I love you.
Sam we can't let Collins or my father or anybody else intimidate us.

News and current affairs

Now, it is feared, organized crime will intimidate his less talented successors.
Today's Kremlin, however, is full of clever ideas about how to control and intimidate newspapers, radio, and television.
What is news is that American power might also be losing its ability to intimidate them.
The US Congress, for example, defines terrorism as including a motive to coerce or intimidate a population or influence a government.
In an attempt to taint the groups I support and intimidate other donors, they imply that my contributions are illegitimate or that I have somehow broken the law.
He will scandalize the summit by seeking to intimidate the former Soviet clients in the room.
The police shot at the crowd on several occasions, but proved too weak to intimidate the demonstrators.
They plan and design headline-grabbing attacks using every means of communications to intimidate and break the collective will of free people.
And, like past insurgencies, the Iraq conflict is one in which the insurgents use horrific acts to intimidate the public, expose the shortcomings of the government, and goad the regime into overreactions that might turn the public against it.
Japan has also gained international credibility for the fact that, for seven decades, its diplomacy has not once sought to coerce or intimidate any other country with threats of military force.
The existence of the facility seems as clear a declaration as possible that the regime is committed to achieving the capacity to intimidate its neighbors with its nuclear arsenal.
EU countries that he could not intimidate militarily, owing to NATO, were wooed with discounts - or punished with price hikes.
Yet today, those same markets intimidate governments, or at least some of them.
That military expedition was but the latest in a series of pogroms carried out to intimidate the restive population of what was then called East Pakistan - today's independent Bangladesh.
Opposition forces, led by Muhammadu Buhari, the candidate of the All Nigeria People's Party, accused Obasanjo of using the police to intimidate voters and falsify the election results.
But more recently Erdogan and his allies have launched a thinly disguised campaign to intimidate their opponents and cement government control over the media and public institutions.
While China's rulers aspire to shape a Sino-centric Asia, their efforts to intimidate smaller neighbors hardly make China a credible candidate for Asian leadership.
Furthermore, in the Shiite tradition, the strategy of the Mahdi, the Shiite Messiah, will be to intimidate all his enemies upon his return to Earth.
The results were then regularly used behind the scenes to bully, intimidate, and coerce targets.
Antyufeyev is using the tenuous ceasefire agreed under the Minsk Protocol to create a cloned KGB service, called the MGB, to intimidate Ukrainian citizens trapped in Donbas into submitting to proxy Kremlin rule.
But it is not just a matter of willingness; the US has lost its ability to intimidate other countries, even allies and clients like Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

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