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71enforcement — n 1. implementation, putting into effect, bringing to bear, Inf. clamping down, U.S. Inf. crackdown; prosecution, carrying out or through, execution, discharge, completion, fulfillment, realization. 2. control, domination, supervision,… …
72huffish — adj 1. irritable, out of sorts, snappish, snappy, curt, short, impatient; touchy, testy, thin skinned, waspish, peevish, petulant; cross, irascible, choleric, ill tempered, ill humored, splenetic; crabby, crabbed, cranky, grouchy, grumpy,… …
73intimidation — n 1. intimidating, daunting, overawing; bullying, browbeating, threatening; tyranny, terrorism, reign of terror; coercion, pressure, Inf. arm twisting; extortion, the badger game; mastery, one upmanship. 2. fright, affright, terror, dread, fear,… …
74mortification — n 1. humiliation, humble pie, humbled pride; shame, disgrace, dishonor, reproach, disrepute, disreputation, ill repute, bad repute, disfavor, disapproval, disapprobation, discountenance, obloquy, loss of face; degradation, debasement, abasement,… …
75pressure — n 1. gravity, Physics. gravitation; weight, heaviness, force; compression, density, denseness. 2. coercion, constraint, compulsion, force, coaction; duress, obligation; persuasion, inducement, insistence, armtwisting; urgency, provocation,… …
76repression — n 1. control, restraint, check, curb; blockage, impediment, obstruction, inhibition, hindrance, encumbrance, determent, deterrent, restriction, fettering, shackling, chaining, tethering, harnessing, bridling; constraint, cramp, limitation,… …
77terrorism — n 1. piracy, brigandage, banditry; buccaneering, freebooting, privateerng, filibustering. 2. commandeering, hijacking, skyjacking, air or sky piracy; abduction, kidnapping, Sl. snatch, capturing, holding hostage; impressment, conscription, man… …
78browbeat — UK [ˈbraʊˌbiːt] / US [ˈbraʊˌbɪt] verb [transitive] Word forms browbeat : present tense I/you/we/they browbeat he/she/it browbeats present participle browbeating past tense browbeat past participle browbeaten UK [ˈbraʊˌbiːt(ə)n] / US… …
79browbeat — /ˈbraʊbit / (say browbeet) verb (t) (browbeat, browbeaten, browbeating) to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully …
80mind — /maɪnd / (say muynd) noun 1. that which thinks, feels, and wills, exercises perception, judgement, reflection, etc., as in a human or other conscious being: the processes of the mind. 2. Psychology the psyche; the totality of conscious and… …
