Verboticism: Enthreaten

'Santa won't come unless you clean up your desk!'

DEFINITION: v. To inspire and motivate people to do great things, by issuing petty threats. n. A kind and gentle threat.

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Throtivate

Created by: Wakkadude21

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Etymology: Threat + Motivate = Throtivate

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Instimidate

asfaltboy

Created by: asfaltboy

Pronunciation: een-stee-meed-ayte

Sentence: She instimidated me to clean the toilets or i'll go to hell.

Etymology: Install stimuli by intimidating.

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Antagonate

Created by: ensoul1

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Etymology: antagonize + motivate

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Santaize

Created by: Pipeski

Pronunciation: Santa-ize

Sentence: Christmas is always a busy time for the telephone santaizer.

Etymology: Santa + Sanitize

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Kindare

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: kynd-dair

Sentence: She kindared her staff into thinking they would not be receiving their annual Christmas bonus unless they did something out of the ordinary. So, the creepy guy in the corner finally washed his hair, the office tart wore flat shoes for once and the heavy set girl stopped eating everything in sight.

Etymology: kind (gentle, docile, with love) + dare (threat, challenge, provoke)

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Threativate

Created by: wniffene

Pronunciation: Thre-tee-vate

Sentence: Dude, my mom totally threativated me to mow the lawn.

Etymology: Threat+Motivate

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Intiminag

Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /in-'ti-m&-"nag/

Sentence: Aunt Petunia never figured out that her nephews just didn't enjoy brussel sprouts the way she did, and so her threats to not cook any came across more as intiminagging.

Etymology: from intimidate + nag

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Mogrivate

Fountain

Created by: Fountain

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Malivate

Created by: TheGentleSherpa

Pronunciation: Mal-I-Vate

Sentence: Last sunday, the priest gave one of the most malivational sermons I'd ever heard.

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Fibspire

Created by: BrakX

Pronunciation: fib-spi-er

Sentence: When we were kids our mom would fibspire us to clean our room by promising us she would kill the Easter Bunny

Etymology: to fib and inspire

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