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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
intimidated \intimidated\ adjective
1. made timid or fearful as by threats. [WordNet 1.5]
2. frightened into submission or compliance.
Syn: browbeaten, bullied, cowed, hangdog. [WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Intimidate \In*tim"i*date\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Intimidated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Intimidating}.] [LL. intimidatus, p. p. of intimidare to frighten; pref. in- in + timidus fearful, timid: cf. F. intimider. See {Timid}.] To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash.
Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. --Johnson.
Syn: To dishearten; dispirit; abash; deter; frighten; terrify; daunt; cow.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
intimidated
adjective
1: made timid or fearful as by threats
2: frightened into submission or compliance [syn: {browbeaten}, {bullied}, {cowed}, {hangdog}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "intimidated": afraid, aghast, appalled, ashen, astounded, awed, awestricken, awestruck, blanched, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, cowed, daunted, deadly pale, dismayed, fainthearted, fearful, frozen, funking, funky, gray with fear, henhearted, horrified, horror-struck, lily-livered, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, mousy, overtimid, overtimorous, pale as death, pallid, panic-prone, panicky, paralyzed, petrified, pigeonhearted, rabbity, scared stiff, scared to death, sissified, sissy, soft, stunned, stupefied, terrified, terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden, terror-riven, terror-shaken, terror-smitten, terror-struck, terror-troubled, timid, timorous, undone, unmanly, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted, white-livered, yellow
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