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Intimidate vs Insinuate - What's the difference?

intimidate | insinuate |

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)
  • To make timid or fearful; to inspire or affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash.
  • He's trying to intimidate you. If you ignore him, hopefully he'll stop.
  • To impress, amaze, excite or induce extraordinary affection in others toward oneself.
  • Synonyms

    * dishearten * abash * daunt

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    insinuate

    English

    Verb

  • (rare) To creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.
  • * Woodward
  • The water easily insinuates itself into, and placidly distends, the vessels of vegetables.
  • (figurative, by extension) To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means.
  • * 1995 , , p. 242
  • 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.
  • * John Locke
  • 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.
  • * Dryden
  • Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the severity of precepts.
  • * Clarendon
  • He insinuated himself into the very good grace of the Duke of Buckingham.
  • To hint; to suggest tacitly while avoiding a direct statement.
  • She insinuated that her friends had betrayed her.

    Synonyms

    * (Make a way for or introduce something by subtle, crafty or artful means. ): imply

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