intimidation

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪntɪmɪˈdeɪʃən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: in‧ti‧mi‧da‧tion

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.

Derived terms

• self-intimidation

 

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 (de) f
• Hungarian: megfélemlítés (hu)
• 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)
• Kazakh: құқай (qūqai)
• 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, →OCLC.
• “intimidation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

From intimider +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.ti.mi.da.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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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.