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intimidate vt.胁迫；威胁；恐吓 (1) 他吓得不敢作声。(2) 鲍勃威胁证人保持沉默。(3) 你的儿子们威胁不了我,你也一样。(4) 那帮歹徒企图恐吓银行经理。 To frighten or "make fearful" is at the root of the verb intimidate. An animal might intimidate a smaller animal by bearing its teeth, and a person can intimidate another by threatening to do something harmful. You can be intimidated with mental or emotional bullying, as well as with something physical: "they were all good spellers, but some of them knew how to intimidate the competition into thinking they didn't have a chance at winning the spelling bee."

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英 [ɪn'tɪmɪdeɪt] 美 [ɪn'tɪmɪdeɪt] (1) He was intimidated into silence.(2) Bob intimidate the witness into silence.(3) Your sons don't intimidate me. And neither do you.(4) The gang tried to intimidate the bank manager. You can see "timid" in the middle of intimidate, and to be timid is to be frightened or to pull back from something. When you intimidate, you frighten or make someone afraid. A pet rat might intimidate your sister's friends, keeping them out of your fort. 1[VERB 动词]恫吓；恐吓；威胁 If you intimidate someone, you deliberately make them frightened enough to do what you want them to do.   [V n]  [V n into -ing]Jones had set out to intimidate and dominate Paul...琼斯开始恐吓并控制保罗。Attempts to intimidate people into voting for the governing party did not work.胁迫人们为执政党投票的企图没有成功。intimidation...an inquiry into allegations of intimidation during last week's vote.对上周投票期间出现胁迫投票的指控的调查

英语单词	intimidate
英美音标	英 [ɪn'tɪmɪdeɪt] 美 [ɪn'tɪmɪdeɪt]
中文释义	vt.胁迫；威胁；恐吓
英语例句	(1) He was intimidated into silence. (2) Bob intimidate the witness into silence. (3) Your sons don't intimidate me. And neither do you. (4) The gang tried to intimidate the bank manager.
中文例句	(1) 他吓得不敢作声。 (2) 鲍勃威胁证人保持沉默。 (3) 你的儿子们威胁不了我,你也一样。 (4) 那帮歹徒企图恐吓银行经理。
vocabulary简明	You can see "timid" in the middle of intimidate, and to be timid is to be frightened or to pull back from something. When you intimidate, you frighten or make someone afraid. A pet rat might intimidate your sister's friends, keeping them out of your fort.
vocabulary扩展	To frighten or "make fearful" is at the root of the verb intimidate. An animal might intimidate a smaller animal by bearing its teeth, and a person can intimidate another by threatening to do something harmful. You can be intimidated with mental or emotional bullying, as well as with something physical: "they were all good spellers, but some of them knew how to intimidate the competition into thinking they didn't have a chance at winning the spelling bee."
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]恫吓；恐吓；威胁 If you intimidate someone, you deliberately make them frightened enough to do what you want them to do. [V n] [V n into -ing] Jones had set out to intimidate and dominate Paul... 琼斯开始恐吓并控制保罗。 Attempts to intimidate people into voting for the governing party did not work. 胁迫人们为执政党投票的企图没有成功。 intimidation ...an inquiry into allegations of intimidation during last week's vote. 对上周投票期间出现胁迫投票的指控的调查

Intimidate Intimidated Silence Frightened Frighten Make Animal [V