MEANING
Intended to create fear or pressure someone through threatened consequences.
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- intimidatory tactics
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The guards used intimidatory tactics.
An intimidatory message arrived at midnight.
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- intimidatory
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Primary category: fear. Forms: Comparative more intimidatory; superlative most intimidatory where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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