intimidation

intimidation

English

Etymology

From French intimidation, from Medieval Latin *intimidatio, from intimidō (“to intimidate”); surface analysis intimidate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪntɪmɪˈdeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

intimidation (countable and uncountable, plural intimidations)

1. 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.

Related terms

• intimidate
• intimidating
• intimidatingly

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 f Hungarian: megfélemlítés 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)

References

• intimidation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• intimidation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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French

Etymology

From intimider +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.ti.mi.da.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

intimidation f (plural intimidations)

1. intimidation

Further reading

• “intimidation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.