Dictionary entry

Intimidate

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/

Pronunciation

/ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪt/

Myanmar Meaning

(v) ခြိမ်းခြောက်သည်။

Definition

intimidate /Çn'tÇmÇdeÇt/ v ~ sb (into sth/ doing sth) ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္သည္။ intimidate a witness (into silence/ into keeping quiet) (eg by threats). ❏ intimidating adj ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္ေသာ။ The glen is a deep cutting between intimidating mountains. လဟာ ကေလးမွာ ေၾကာက္မက္ဖြယ္မိုးေနေသာ ဧရာမေတာင္ႀကီးမ်ား အၾကား ညႇပ္ေပ်ာက္လ်က္ရိွသည္။ ❏ intimidation /ÇntÇmÇ'deÇʃn/ n [U] ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္မႈ။ give way to intimidation. ❏ intimidatory /ÇntÇmÇ'deÇtǝri/ adj ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္ေသာ။ intimidatory tactics.

Examples

  1. The report said he used harassment and threats to intimidate television journalists.
  2. Adult courtrooms will inevitably intimidate young children.