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Commination :: Commination (n.) A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.

Threatening :: Threatening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Threate.

Impending :: Impending (a.) Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening.

Loweringly :: Loweringly (adv.) In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.

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..

Minatory :: Minatory (a.) Threatening; menacing.

Bluster :: Bluster (n.) Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.

Attitude :: Attitude (n.) The posture or position of a person or an animal, or the manner in which the parts of his body are disposed; position assumed or studied to serve a purpose; as, a threatening attitude; an attitude of entreaty..

Threaten :: Threaten (v. i.) To use threats, or menaces; also, to have a threatening appearance..

Bully :: Bully (n.) A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow..

Evil :: Evil (a.) Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days..

Overwhelm :: Overwhelm (v. t.) To project or impend over threateningly.

Imminent :: Imminent (a.) Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril.

Imminence :: Imminence (n.) The condition or quality of being imminent; a threatening, as of something about to happen. The imminence of any danger or distress..

Disease :: Disease (n.) An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc..

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..

Denounce :: Denounce (v. t.) To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize..

Ill-looking :: Ill-looking (a.) Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv..

Threatening :: Threatening () a. & n. from Threaten, v..

Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To hover; to impend; to appear threateningly; -- usually with over; as, evils hang over the country..

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