Intimidate vs Insinuate - What's the difference?
intimidate | insinuate |
To make timid or fearful; to inspire or affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash.
To impress, amaze, excite or induce extraordinary affection in others toward oneself.
(rare) To creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.
* Woodward
(figurative, by extension) To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means.
* 1995 , , p. 242
* John Locke
* Dryden
* Clarendon
To hint; to suggest tacitly while avoiding a direct statement.
As verbs the difference between intimidate and insinuate
is that intimidate is to make timid or fearful; to inspire or affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash while insinuate is (rare) to creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.intimidate
English
Verb
(intimidat)- He's trying to intimidate you. If you ignore him, hopefully he'll stop.
Synonyms
* dishearten * abash * dauntReferences
* *insinuate
English
Verb
- The water easily insinuates itself into, and placidly distends, the vessels of vegetables.
- Nanny didn't so much enter places as insinuate herself; she had unconsciously taken a natural talent for liking people and developed it into an occult science.
- All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment.
- Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the severity of precepts.
- He insinuated himself into the very good grace of the Duke of Buckingham.
- She insinuated that her friends had betrayed her.