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INTIMIDATED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does intimidated mean?
• INTIMIDATED (adjective)
The adjective INTIMIDATED has 1 sense:
1. made timid or fearful as by threats
Familiarity information: INTIMIDATED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made timid or fearful as by threats
Similar:
timid (showing fear and lack of confidence)
Context examples
As I spoke, rage sparkled in my eyes; the magistrate was intimidated.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I now stood in the empty hall; before me was the breakfast-room door, and I stopped, intimidated and trembling.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I am not to be intimidated into anything so wholly unreasonable.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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