intimidate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INTIM'IDATE, verb transitive [Latin timidus, fearful; timeo, to fear.] To make fearful; to inspire with fear; to dishearten; to abash. Now guilt once harbor'd in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.
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