Synonyms of the word

intimidation

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

aggression

• n. The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
• n. The practice or habit of launching attacks.
• n. Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.

bullying

• n. An act of intimidating a weaker person to do something, especially such repeated coercion.
• n. Persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant for another person.
• v. present participle of bully.

determent

• n. the act of deterring; deterrence.

deterrence

• n. The act of deterring, or the state of being deterred.
• n. Action taken by states or alliances of nations against equally powerful alliances to prevent hostile action.
• n. The art of producing in one's enemy the fear of attacking.

discouragement

• n. the act of discouraging.
• n. anything that discourages.

disheartenment

• n. The act of disheartening.
• n. The state of being disheartened; dejection.

dismay

• n. A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling…
• n. Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
• v. To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive of firmness and…
• v. To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
• v. To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.

fear

• n. (uncountable) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
• n. (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
• n. (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
• v. (transitive) To feel fear about (something or someone); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm.
• v. (intransitive) To feel fear (about something).
• v. (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
• v. (transitive) Regret.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause fear to; to frighten.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be anxious or solicitous for.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To suspect; to doubt.
• adj. (dialectal) Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.

fearfulness

• n. The quality of being fearful.

fright

• n. A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short…
• n. Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To frighten.
• adj. (rare) frightened; afraid; affright.