| 单词 | intimidate |
| 释义 | in·tim·i·date < despite his imposing presence and all the grandeur surrounding him, I was not intimidated — Polly Adler > especially < charged with intimidating public officials to get the government to buy machine guns he was selling — Time > Synonyms: < most of these officials have been badly intimidated by the specter of a summons to appear before a Congressional committee — New Republic > < many authors and publishers are not merely intimidated by the thought of footnotes; they are positively terrified — G.W.Sherburn > cow implies a reduction to a state where the spirit is broken or all courage lost < cowed into cooperation through fear of the gangsters — Michael Blundell > < cowed the gang with his detective's star — J.T.Farrell > < a ship's company cowed to groveling point — John Masefield > bulldoze, in its earliest sense signifying to intimidate or coerce by violence, now often can mean to force into line by an application of great force, not necessarily implying though often involving intimidation < a bulldozed people, shaking with the ague of the terrorized — W.L.Sullivan > < the sheer strength of his reputation and the force of his will bulldozing them into making loans — F.L.Allen > < the highly reputable gentlemen who were bulldozed into taking this responsibility have resigned — Robert Moses > bully implies intimidation or attempts to intimidate by swaggering overbearing behavior or by the use of unfair force < a mild, long-suffering woman will permit her husband to bully her for years, whereas another woman will react violently to the first beating — Jacob Fried > < inevitable that the older boys should become mischievous louts; they bullied and tormented and corrupted the younger boys — H.G.Wells > browbeat implies a cowing by scornful contemptuous treatment, especially intellectual or moral oppression < were browbeaten into the hardest and most menial tasks — F.V.W.Mason > < no wish to browbeat the reader into accepting my theory of myself or of anything else — George Santayana > < browbeat students by a great display of learning > |
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