Intimidate
To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash.
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Intimidate Quotations
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Barack Obama
I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
Mike Tyson
We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.
Hillary Clinton
Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
Kofi Annan
I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
Twyla Tharp
The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party is not a racist movement, period! If it were, why would the straw polls keep showing that the black guy is winning? That's a rhetorical question. Let me state it: The black guy keeps winning.
Herman Cain
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
Milan Kundera
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
James F. Cooper
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Our whole philosophy was to intimidate the quarterback. We were able to do it. We were pioneers. People still recognize us as, maybe, the best defensive line of all time.
Merlin Olsen
Intimidate Translations
intimidate in French is intimidons, intimident, intimider, terrifier
intimidate in Italian is intimidire
intimidate in Latin is territo, territo
intimidate in Norwegian is skremme
intimidate in Spanish is intimidar, acobardar
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