intimidation

n. act of intimidating; fear or timidity caused by threat

Intimidation is generally used in the meaning of criminal threatening. Intimidation is a criminal attempt to threaten by speaking or acting in a dominating manner, often with the goal of making a person or people do what the intimidator wants.Threatening behaviours are supposed to be a maladaptive outgrowth of normal competitive urge for interrelational dominance generally seen in animals. In case of human beings, threatening behaviours may be more completely modulated by social forces, or may be more mercilessly plotted by individual egotism.
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Noun
1. the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something
(synonym) bullying
(hypernym) aggression
(hyponym) terrorization, terrorisation, frightening
(derivation) intimidate, restrain
2. the feeling of discouragement in the face of someone's superior fame or wealth or status etc.
(hypernym) discouragement, disheartenment, dismay
3. the feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid
(hypernym) fear, fearfulness, fright
(derivation) intimidate
4. a communication that makes you afraid to try something
(synonym) determent, deterrence
(hypernym) discouragement
(derivation) intimidate, restrain

n. intimidation, shy

(n.)
The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated; as, the voters were kept from the polls by intimidation.