Word Meanings - INTIMIDATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson. Syn. -- To dishearten; dispirit; abash;

Additional info about word: INTIMIDATE

To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson. Syn. -- To dishearten; dispirit; abash; deter; frighten; terrify; daunt; cow. (more info) frighten; pref. in- in + timidus fearful, timid: cf. F. intimider.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INTIMIDATE)

• Alarm Warn
• wake
• terrify
• intimidate
• frighten
• Browbeat
• Intimidate
• bully
• overbear
• cow
• overawe
• boycott
• bulldoze
• Coerce
• Restrain
• inhibit
• impel
• compel
• drive
• counteract
• check
• constrain
• force
• confine
• Confront
• Oppose
• face
• encounter
• resist
• menace
• Cow Frighten
• abash
• oppress
• brow-bent

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INTIMIDATE)

• Loose
• liberate
• instigate
• accelerate
• license
• indulge
• allow
• abet

Related words: (words related to INTIMIDATE)

• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• ENCOUNTERER
  One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
• BOYCOTTER
  A participant in boycotting.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• COUNTERACT
  To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• DRIVEL
  To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
• CONFRONTATION
  Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
• DRIVE
  To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by
• CHECKREIN
  1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• ALARM
  1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in
• ABASHMENT
  The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.
• INDULGEMENT
  Indulgence. Wood.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• CALABASH
  Calebasse), lit., a dry gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + 1. The common gourd . 2. The fruit of the calabash tree. 3. A water dipper, bottle, backet, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd. Calabash tree.
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT
• MALLOWWORT
  Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.