Intimidated

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Intimidate \In*tim"i*date\, v. t. [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.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           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.
          [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  intimidated \intimidated\ adj.
     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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  intimidated
       adj 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