Both Uses of
intimidate
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- Here was a collector of water-rates, without his book, without his pen and ink, without his double knock, without his intimidation, kissing—actually kissing—an agreeable female, and leaving taxes, summonses, notices that he had called, or announcements that he would never call again, for two quarters' due, wholly out of the question.†
Chpt 14 *
- Such were the thoughts—if to visions so imperfect and undefined as those which wandered through his enfeebled brain, the term can be applied—which were present to the mind of Smike, and rendered him deaf alike to intimidation and persuasion.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(intimidate) make fearful of inadequacy
or:
threaten