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say it: in-tim-i-DAY-shuhn
intimidation is a noun meaning "the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something". It is pronounced /ˌɪnˌtɪmɪˈdeɪʃən/ — in-tim-i-DAY-shuhn. It carries 4 recorded senses.
the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something
the feeling of discouragement in the face of someone's superior fame or wealth or status etc.
the feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid
a communication that makes you afraid to try something
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for intimidation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.