- present participle of intimidate.
intimidating
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Sri Lanka's Supreme Court overturned Thursday a presidential pardon granted to a hardline Buddhist monk and ordered him to serve the remainder of a six-year prison sentence for intimidating the wife of a missing cartoonist.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
McQuillan said these visits can be "intimidating" as she does not know why her son has been placed on the register.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Released months after Chavez-DeRemer resigned under a cloud of allegations, the 40-page report by the department’s internal watchdog described a “toxic, intimidating and humiliating” workplace at the federal agency tasked with protecting U.S. workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Her activism was not without a backlash - from both men and women - and harassment that could be as vulgar as it was intimidating.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
At six feet five inches tall and over 250 pounds, he could seem a little intimidating, but his wife and mother insisted that he was sweet and gentle.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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