different between deject vs intimidate

English

Etymology

From Old French dejeter, from Latin deicere (“to throw down”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??d??kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

deject (third-person singular simple present dejects, present participle dejecting, simple past and past participle dejected)

1. (transitive) Make sad or dispirited.
   • 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 73,^[1]

     […] the Thoughts of my Friends, and native Country, and the Improbability of ever seeing them again, made me very melancholy; and dejected me to that Degree, that sometimes I could not forbear indulging my Grief in private, and bursting out into a Flood of Tears.

   • 1933 Arthur Melville Jordan: Educational Psychology (page 60) [2]

     On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To cast downward.
   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge: John Williams, Book 5, Chapter 1, p. 358,^[3]

     […] sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look.
3. To debase or humble.

Translations

Noun

deject (plural dejects)

1. One who is lowly or abject.
2. (usually in the plural) A waste product.

Derived terms

• dejected
• dejection

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin intimidatus, past participle of intimidare (“to make afraid”), from Latin in (“in”) + timidus (“afraid, timid”); see timid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?t?m?de?t/

Verb

intimidate (third-person singular simple present intimidates, present participle intimidating, simple past and past participle intimidated)

1. (transitive) To make timid or afraid; to cause to feel fear or nervousness; to deter, especially by threats of violence

   He's trying to intimidate you. If you ignore him, hopefully he'll stop.

   Synonym: abash

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:intimidate

Related terms

• intimidatingly
• intimidation
• intimidator
• intimidatory
• timid

Translations

References

• intimidate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• intimidate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.