Definition of threat

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Threat (n.) The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation..

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Blustering :: Blustering (a.) Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous.
Threatful :: Threatful (a.) Full of threats; having a menacing appearance.
Ill-looking :: Ill-looking (a.) Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv..
Ballarag :: Ballarag (v. i.) To bully; to threaten.
Minacious :: Minacious (a.) Threatening; menacing.
Imminent :: Imminent (a.) Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril.
Totter :: Totter (v. i.) To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age..
Extortion :: Extortion (n.) The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting anything from a person by force, by threats, or by any undue exercise of power; undue exaction; overcharge..
Alarm :: Alarm (v. t.) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
Parry :: Parry (v. t.) To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm..
Alert :: Alert (n.) An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning..
Denounce :: Denounce (v. t.) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression.
Minatory :: Minatory (a.) Threatening; menacing.
Cloud :: Cloud (n.) That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect..
Scowl :: Scowl (n.) Hence, gloom; dark or threatening aspect..
Assault :: Assault (n.) An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery..
Blackmail :: Blackmail (n.) Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure..
Minacity :: Minacity (n.) Disposition to threaten.
Thunder :: Thunder (v. t.) To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation..
Bully :: Bully (n.) A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow..
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