Intimidation

Noun

 * 1) 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.

Related terms

 * intimidate
 * intimidating
 * intimidatingly

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

Etymology
< as if *undefined: < intimidare:; see intimidate.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: pelottelu


 * German:
 * Telugu: బెదిరింపు (bedirimpu)