the feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid the feeling of discouragement in the face of someone's superior fame or wealth or status etc
As defined in the fair housing laws, it is the illegal act of coercing, intimidating, threatening, or interfering with a person in exercising or enjoying any right granted or protected by federal, state or local fair housing laws
If you intimidate someone, you deliberately make them frightened enough to do what you want them to do. Jones had set out to intimidate and dominate Paul Attempts to intimidate people into voting for the governing party did not work. + intimidation in·timi·da·tion an inquiry into allegations of intimidation during last week's vote