intimidation

The act of intimidating or making fearful, or the state of being intimidated; fear excited by threats or hostile acts.

In law, the wrongful use of violence or a threat of violence, direct or indirect, against any person with a view to compel him to do or to abstain from doing some act which he has a legal right to do or to abstain from doing.

The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated.

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.

The feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid.