intimidate
verb🔊/ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/
🔊/ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they intimidate | 🔊/ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/ 🔊/ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/ |
| he / she / it intimidates | 🔊/ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪts/ 🔊/ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪts/ |
| past simple intimidated | 🔊/ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪtɪd/ 🔊/ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle intimidated | 🔊/ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪtɪd/ 🔊/ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form intimidating | 🔊/ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪtɪŋ/ |
- intimidate somebody (into something/into doing something)
to frighten or threaten somebody so that they will do what you want 恐吓；威胁 They were accused of intimidating people into voting for them. 他们被控胁迫选民投他们的票。 🔊🔊 She refused to be intimidated by their threats. 她没有被他们的威胁吓倒。 🔊🔊
Extra ExamplesHe was not a man to be easily intimidated. 他不是一个能被轻易吓倒的人。 She did not feel intimidated by him. 她并未觉得受到了他的威胁。 The police had tried to intimidate him into signing a confession. 警方曾试图胁迫他签署认罪书。 Buildings were set on fire in an attempt to intimidate our members. 建筑物起火是为了恐吓我们的成员。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- physically
- psychologically
- try to
- into
- an attempt to intimidate somebody
- an effort to intimidate somebody
- be easily intimidated
- …
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin intimidat- ‘made timid’, from the verb intimidare (based on timidus ‘timid’).