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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INTIMIDA'TION, n. The act of making fearful; the state of being abashed.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something [syn: bullying, intimidation]
2: the feeling of discouragement in the face of someone's superior fame or wealth or status etc.
3: the feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid
4: a communication that makes you afraid to try something [syn: determent, deterrence, intimidation]

Merriam Webster's

noun see intimidate

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Intimidation In*tim`i*da"tion, n. [Cf. F. intimidation.] The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated; as, the voters were kept from the polls by intimidation. The king carried his measures in Parliament by intimidation. --Paley.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see intimidate

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Intimidating. 2. Fear, terror, terrorism, reign of terror.

Moby Thesaurus

admonition, argumentum baculinum, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, blustering, boastfulness, bravado, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, bustle, caution, cautioning, caveat, coercion, commination, cowing, demoralization, denunciation, determent, deterrence, duress, empty threat, expostulation, fanfaronade, flurry, fluster, foreboding, frightening, frightening off, fuss, hectoring, high pressure, idle threat, imminence, implied threat, menace, monition, pressure, promise of harm, psychological warfare, rant, remonstrance, rodomontade, side, splutter, sputter, strong-arm tactics, swagger, swashbucklery, sword of Damocles, talking out of, the big stick, the bludgeon, the club, the jackboot, the mailed fist, the strong arm, the sword, threat, threateningness, threatfulness, violence, war of nerves, warning