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means A person who scares others into compliance or silence, often through sheer presence, tone, or implied threat rather than actual argument.

from Traces back to the Latin 'timidus' (fearful, timid), itself from 'timere' (to fear). The prefix 'in-' here works intensively, meaning 'to make' — so 'intimidate' literally means 'to make fearful.' The word entered English around the 1600s via Medieval Latin 'intimidare,' and 'intimidator' followed as the agent-noun — the one who does the fear-making, not just feels it.