0 to frighten sb, especially in order to force them to do sth -- skremme
Witnesses were intimidated into silence. Vitner ble skremt til taushet.
1 to frighten eg by threatening violence -- skremme, true
I was intimidated by the doorman’s aggressive attitude.
Above all, he wanted to use the vigilantes to intimidate his opponents.
All this results in a book that is brilliant, intimidating, original, disconnected, often hilarious, intentionally disconcerting, and sometimes awkwardly personal.
He hesitates to say who he "really" is because he is too easily intimidated on the phone, and announces himself instead as his old assistant.
Patients are often frightened, intimidated, and angry - all of which are natural feelings associated with hospitalization.
Her mastery, enviable and evidently intimidating, is comfortingly confounded with complicity.
The book claims to be aimed at a wide readership without an intimidating level of mathematics.
Both then and now rural electorates have been intimidated.
The leadership lost sight of the need to persuade and began to believe that it could intimidate its way to the vote.
