.. The plan as outlined to me was to form an organization of veterans to use as a bluff or as a club at least to intimidate the government... but the corporate cabal had picked the wrong man.
n. [ Cf. F. intimidation. ] The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated; as, the voters were kept from the polls by intimidation. [ 1913 Webster ]
The king carried his measures in Parliament by intimidation. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]