intimidation

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
18
Letters
12
Pronunciation
/ɪntɪmɪˈdeɪʃən/

Definition of intimidation

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated.
    “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.”

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Etymology

From intimidate + -ion. Compare French intimidation; perhaps modeled on it.

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