Intimidating definition in dictionary
13-Apr-2020 17:26
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Intimidation (also called cowing) is intentional behavior that "would cause a person of ordinary sensibilities" fear of injury or harm.
Cow implies bringing out an abject state of timorousness and often demoralization: a dog that was cowed by abuse.