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What does intimidate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word intimidate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To make timid or fearful; to inspire or affect with fear; to deter, especially by threats of violence; to dishearten; to abash.
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Nothing bothers me more than to hear lawyers using legal language to intimidate and get their way.
When I came in behind him in a thermal in the start circle he deliberately turned back and into me to intimidate me and warn me off.
He took a couple steps forward and thrust out with his sword, hoping to intimidate them or scare them away.
He tried antagonising me and being patronising and condescending but he didn't intimidate me.
Historically, the sacking of captured cities was plainly intended to intimidate the inhabitants of other fortified posts.
I think of myself as a very friendly, easy, accessible guy, but I seem to intimidate people, or at least the fact of who I am intimidates people.

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