英语词汇“intimidate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINintimidate

Origin:

1600-1700 Medieval Latin past participle of intimidare, from Latin timidus; ➔ TIMID

VERB TABLE

intimidate

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	intimidate
	he, she, it	intimidates
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	intimidated
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have intimidated
	he, she, it	has intimidated
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had intimidated
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will intimidate
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have intimidated

Continuous Form
Present	I	am intimidating
	he, she, it	is intimidating
	you, we, they	are intimidating
Past	I, he, she, it	was intimidating
	you, we, they	were intimidating
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been intimidating
	he, she, it	has been intimidating
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been intimidating
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be intimidating
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been intimidating

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

He's being kept in jail until the trial so that he can't intimidate any of the witnesses.
In the former Soviet Union, the KGB was used to intimidate those who disagreed with the Communist Party.
Large audiences don't intimidate him.
Some workers are saying that they were intimidated into accepting the pay cuts, with threats of job losses.
The boss is quite tough, but don't let him intimidate you.

THESAURUS► frighten

to make someone feel afraid: · The thought of being in court frightened him.

► scare

especially spoken to frighten someone. Scare is less formal than frighten, and is the usual word to use in everyday English: · He was driving fast just to scare us.· It scared him to think that his mother might never recover.

► terrify

to make someone feel extremely frightened: · The idea of going down into the caves terrified her.· Robbers terrified bank staff by threatening them at gunpoint.

► give somebody a fright

to make someone suddenly feel frightened in a way that makes their heart beat more quickly: · It gave me a terrible fright when I found him unconscious on the floor.

► give somebody the creeps

if a person or place gives you the creeps, they make you feel slightly frightened because they are strange: · This house gives me the creeps.

► startle

to frighten someone. Used when you suddenly see someone and did not know they were there, or when you suddenly hear something: · I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to startle you.· The noise startled him, and he dropped his glass on the floor.

► alarm

to make someone feel frightened and worried that something bad might happen: · I didn’t want to alarm her by calling in the middle of the night.

► intimidate

to deliberately frighten someone, especially so that they will do what you want: · Many of the gangs were using dogs to intimidate people.

Longman Language Activatorto threaten someone► threaten

to tell someone that you will hurt them or cause serious problems for them if they do not do what you want: · Then he started threatening me and saying that my family might get hurt.threaten to do something: · When they found out he was an American, the soldiers threatened to kill him.· Every time we have a quarrel, she threatens to leave me.threaten somebody with a knife/gun etc: · After threatening the manager with a knife, he stole £300 and ran off.threaten somebody with violence/jail/legal action etc (=say you will hurt someone, put them in prison etc): · I was threatened with jail if I published the story.

► intimidate

to try to make someone do what you want by making them feel afraid: · He's being kept in jail until the trial so that he can't intimidate any of the witnesses.· The boss is quite tough, but don't let him intimidate you.intimidate somebody into doing something: · Some workers are saying that they were intimidated into accepting the pay cuts, with threats of job losses.

► warn somebody off

to try to make someone stay away from somewhere or stop doing something by warning or threatening them: · Journalists trying to investigate the scandal were warned off by the FBI.warn somebody off something: · The old man warned them off his land.warn somebody off doing something: · Joanna's brothers had warned him off seeing her again.

► hold somebody to ransom

British to force a group, organization, or government to give you what you want by threatening to cause political or financial difficulties if they do not: · What gives cheaper fuel campaigners the right to hold the country to ransom?· The president said that the company would not be held to ransom by strikes.

► make/issue threats

to repeatedly threaten to harm someone: · He wanted more money and over the next few weeks made further threats.make/issue threats about: · It's a waste of time issuing vague threats about imposing sanctions -- we should send in the army.make/issue threats against: · Threats have been made against the judge who is investigating the case.

► get at/get to/nobble

informal to threaten witnesses, judges, or other people involved in a court case in order to influence the court's decision: · The trial had to be abandoned when it was discovered that jury members had been got at by the Mafia.· He didn't like the idea that he had been nobbled, especially by a woman.· When the police questioned Davis, it was clear someone else had gotten to him first.

► under duress

formal achieved by using unfair threats to force someone to admit something or give something to someone: · The confession had been obtained under duress, and therefore could not be allowed as evidence.· In her defence, the accused said that she had been acting under duress when she took the money.

actions that threaten someone► intimidation

when you try to make someone do what you want by making them feel afraid: · Hoskins used intimidation and violence to get money from local restaurant owners.· The killings are part of a campaign of intimidation against opposition supporters.

► menace

a way of behaving or speaking that makes people think that you are threatening them, even though you do not actually say or do anything violent: · His voice was soft but his tone and expression were full of menace.· Her manner suddenly changed from friendliness and warmth to one of faint menace.

► threatening behaviour

British the criminal offence of behaving in a threatening way towards someone - use this in legal contexts: · He was charged with being drunk and disorderly and using threatening behaviour.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► attempt

· Sam jumps into their bed in an attempt to intimidate Carl.· It appeared that she'd been right about Harry Martin's being behind the attempts to intimidate her.

► people

· The witnesses told the court since going to the police they've been intimidated by certain people on the estate.· Hell, those goons were in complete charge, with their car caravans, squealing their tires around, intimidating people.

VERB► feel

· I felt really intimidated by him.· Apartment owners feel intimidated when buyers approach.· There's not a huge level of power available-you can snap the throttle open without feeling intimidated.· He comported himself so stiffly during cocktails that Jim Maier suspected the bishop might be feeling intimidated.· I felt intimidated at first because I'd never been in a school with so many middle-class children.· Tish, for her part, felt intimidated by Joe, but drawn to him none the less.· Lunia was flattered at having her portrait painted by a gifted artist, but at first she felt rather intimidated by the experience.· A lot of bettors feel less intimidated with them.

► refuse

· Murray refuses to be intimidated by the ring of fielders.· Sheffield's Mark Roe refused to be intimidated by the course, shooting a courageous 72 to be fourth on 143.

► try

· They tried to intimidate me by holding on to the furniture.· The court is trying to intimidate anybody with an independent mind.· If he senses some one is a little nervous of him, he tries to intimidate them, though his temperament is superb.· The parent tries to intimidate or scare the child into backing down.