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English
Etymology
From French intimidation, from Medieval Latin *intimidatio, from intimidō (“to intimidate”). By surface analysis, intimidate + -ion.
Pronunciation
Noun
intimidation (countable and uncountable, plural intimidations)
- The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated.
1920, Warren G. Harding, Liberty Under the Law:It broadly includes all the people with specific recognition for none, and the highest consecration we can make today is a committal of the Republican party to that saving constitutionalism which contemplates all America as one people and holds just government free from influence on the one hand, and unmoved by intimidation on the other.
Derived terms
Translations
act of making timid or fearful
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: تَرْهِيب m (tarhīb), تَخْوِيف m (taḵwīf), تَهْوِيل m (tahwīl), تَهْدِيد m (tahdīd)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: запало́хванне n (zapalóxvannje), запу́жванне n (zapúžvannje), застра́шванне n (zastrášvannje)
- Bulgarian: спла́шване n (splášvane), запла́шване n (zaplášvane)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 恐嚇／恐吓 (zh) (kǒnghè), 威嚇／威吓 (zh) (wēihè), 脅迫／胁迫 (zh) (xiépò)
- Czech: zastrašování n
- Dutch: intimidatie (nl) f
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: pelottelu (fi), uhkailu (fi)
- French: intimidation (fr) f
- Galician: intimidación (gl)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Einschüchterung (de) f
- Hungarian: megfélemlítés (hu)
- Indonesian: intimidasi (id)
- Italian: intimidazione (it) f
- Japanese: 脅迫 (ja) (きょうはく, kyōhaku), 脅威 (ja) (きょうい, kyōi), 恫喝 (ja) (どうかつ, dōkatsu)
- Korean: 협박(脅迫) (ko) (hyeopbak), 위협(威脅) (ko) (wihyeop)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: застрашување n (zastrašuvanje)
- Polish: zastraszenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: intimidação (pt) f
- Romanian: intimidare (ro) f
- Russian: запу́гивание (ru) n (zapúgivanije), устраше́ние (ru) n (ustrašénije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: застраши́ва̄ње n
- Roman: zastrašívānje (sh) n
- Slovak: zastrašovanie n
- Slovene: zastraševanje n, ustrahovanje n
- Spanish: intimidación (es) f
- Telugu: బెదిరింపు (te) (bedirimpu)
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: заля́кування n (zaljákuvannja), застра́шування n (zastrášuvannja)
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References
- “intimidation”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “intimidation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French
Etymology
From intimider + -ation.
Pronunciation
Noun
intimidation f (plural intimidations)
- intimidation
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