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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

abash, admonish, alarm, awe, badger, bait, be imminent, beat down, blackjack, bludgeon, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, bluster out of, bounce, brag, break, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, bullyrag, castrate, caution, chivy, clamp down on, coerce, comminate, compel, constrain, cow, cry out against, daunt, demoralize, denounce, despotize, dismay, disquiet, dissuade, domineer, domineer over, dragoon, enslave, expostulate, force, forebode, frighten, frighten off, gasconade, grind, grind down, harass, hector, henpeck, hijack, hound, huff, keep down, keep under, kid out of, look threatening, lord it over, lower, menace, oblige, oppress, out-herod Herod, overawe, overbear, overmaster, override, petrify, press heavy on, rage, rant, rave, remonstrate, repress, ride, ride over, ride roughshod over, roister, rollick, ruffle, scare, shanghai, slang, splutter, sputter, steamroller, storm, strong-arm, subjugate, suppress, swagger, swashbuckle, systematically terrorize, talk out of, terrify, terrorize, threaten, trample down, trample upon, tread down, tread upon, tyrannize, tyrannize over, unman, unpersuade, use violence, utter threats against, vapor, walk all over, walk over, warn, weigh heavy on

Dictionary Results for intimidate:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

intimidate
    v 1: make timid or fearful; "Her boss intimidates her"
    2: to compel or deter by or as if by threats [syn: intimidate,
       restrain]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Intimidate \In*tim"i*date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intimidated;
   p. pr. & vb. n. Intimidating.] [LL. intimidatus, p. p. of
   intimidare to frighten; pref. in- in + timidus fearful,
   timid: cf. F. intimider. See Timid.]
   To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to
   deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash.
   [1913 Webster]

         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.
        [1913 Webster]

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