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intimidator

/in-tim-i-deyt/US // ɪnˈtɪm ɪˌdeɪt //UK // (ɪnˈtɪmɪˌdeɪt) //

恐吓者,恫吓者,吓唬人的人,吓唬人

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    in·tim·i·dat·ed, in·tim·i·dat·ing.

    • : to make timid; fill with fear.
    • : to overawe or cow, as through the force of personality or by superior display of wealth, talent, etc.
    • : to force into or deter from some action by inducing fear: to intimidate a voter into staying away from the polls.

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Examples

  • They said in an interview that guards and inmates had been making intimidating comments to her following her accusations and that she felt unsafe.

  • In the past six months, Eknelygoda’s wife, Sandya, said she believed witnesses in the case were being intimidated, and threats to her and surveillance of her family had increased.

  • Keep immigrants feeling unwelcome, keep them afraid, keep them intimidated, and keep them away from knowing and asserting their rights, including their right to vote.

  • Cops, for instance, couldn’t intimidate a witness, lie in the course of an investigation or participate in a law enforcement gang with “a pattern of rogue on-duty behavior.”

  • They are easily intimidated and remain silent for fear of retaliation, fear of losing their jobs, fear that nobody will listen or believe them.

  • And nowadays, politicians and CEOs frequently employ the color to command respect and intimidate.

  • When ISIS beheaded an American journalist, it meant to intimidate—and provoke—the United States.

  • One pilot friend in Zwara pointed out that just “two Apaches,” attack helicopters, would intimidate the militias into a ceasefire.

  • On Sunday, Iroquois defenders used them to intimidate and pummel Canadians in a second-half surge.

  • You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population.

  • On one occasion a noted professional duellist thought that he could intimidate him.

  • Were these figures going to the enemy Chief they might intimidate him—coming here they alarm me.

  • To intimidate them, Dunmore issued proclamations, and threatened freeing the slaves against their masters.

  • She had a faint hope that the room might intimidate this Western girl, but instead of intimidation there was exultation.

  • They were trying to intimidate him—to make him flinch; each was urging the other on to some immediate act of personal violence.