She had endured years of intimidation and violence.
她忍受了多年的恐吓和暴力。
the intimidation of voters
对选民的恐吓
Examples from the Corpus
intimidate• He's being kept in jail until the trial so that he can't intimidate any of the witnesses.• Large audiences don't intimidate him.• Some workers are saying that they were intimidated into accepting the pay cuts, with threats of job losses.• In the formerSovietUnion, the KGB was used to intimidate those who disagreed with the Communist Party.• The boss is quite tough, but don't let him intimidate you.
Originintimidate
(1600-1700)Medieval Latin past participle of intimidare, from Latintimidus; → TIMID
ADVERB | VERB + INTIMIDATE | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADVERB➤physically, psychologically人身/心理恐嚇◇Dissidents were physically intimidated, threatened, and harshly interrogated.持不同政見者受到了人身恐嚇和威脅,並遭受了粗暴的審訊。VERB + INTIMIDATE➤try to試圖威脅PREPOSITION➤into脅迫做⋯◇The police had tried to intimidate him into signing a confession.警方曾試圖脅迫他簽署認罪書。PHRASES➤an attempt to intimidate sb, an effort to intimidate sb脅迫某人的企圖▸➤be easily intimidated容易受到脅迫◇He was not a man to be easily intimidated.他不是一個能被輕易嚇倒的人。➤feel intimidated感覺受到威脅◇She did not feel intimidated by him.她並未覺得受到了他的威脅。