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Intimidated   /ɪntˈɪmɪdˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
Intimidated

adjective
1.
Made timid or fearful as by threats.



Intimidate

verb
(past & past part. intimidated; pres. part. intimidating)
1.
Make timid or fearful.
2.
To compel or deter by or as if by threats.  Synonym: restrain.






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"Intimidated" Quotes from Famous Books



... It was on this occasion that Alexander the Sixth's son, the infamous Caesar Borgia, selected forty of the most beautiful from the principal ladies of the place, and sent them back to Rome to swell the complement of his seraglio. The dreadful doom of Capua intimidated further resistance, but inspired such detestation of the French throughout the country, as proved of infinite prejudice to their cause in their subsequent struggle with the ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V3 • William H. Prescott

... not easily intimidated, evidently concluding that no good could come of resistance at that time, threw the revolver on to the table and ...
— The Sins of Severac Bablon • Sax Rohmer

... one of her communications was intercepted, and the cowardly bearer, intimidated by the terrors of impending death, was persuaded to betray his employer. He revealed all that he knew of her practices, and one of his statements, namely, that she usually drew from her shoe the paper which she gave him, ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 • Various

... thing!" said pere Baltet, considering the P. C. A. with some astonishment; while Pascalon, intimidated by the ladies and blushing and stuttering, ...
— Tartarin On The Alps • Alphonse Daudet

... Don Filipo, exchanging a look with the latter, "that the people won't desert him. We must keep in mind what his family has done and what he is trying to do now. And if, as may happen, the people, being intimidated, are silent, his friends—" ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal


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