Words similar to intimidate

Example sentences for: intimidate

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Philosophy and the fine arts do not intimidate the French as something to be confined to a small élite.
In 1983, Reagan funded Star Wars to intimidate the Soviet Union.
Or Apple's iMac, with its cheery translucent green casing that seems to declare, "Unlike all those complicated computers that try to intimidate you, I have no secrets."
Neither Jacob Weisberg, in "The Conintern," nor David Brock in the "Dialogue" on right-wing journalism, checked to see if I tried to intimidate Tucker Carlson or prevent him from criticizing Grover Norquist, although they both condemned me for it.
Both papers note that even before this decision, the new law has produced a much more active deportation rate, and so even though the decision doesn't have that much direct impact because comparatively few illegal immigrants claim political persecution, it may still cut a rather wide swath, because in the words of the Post , it has "great potential to intimidate immigrants and make them wary of speaking out about any political matter for fear of drawing attention to their illegal status."