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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..

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

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

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

Impendent :: Impendent (a.) Impending; threatening.

Blackly :: Blackly (adv.) In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously..

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..

Denunciatory :: Denunciatory (a.) Characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory; accusing; threatening; as, severe and denunciatory language..

Lowering :: Lowering (a.) Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky..

Comminatory :: Comminatory (a.) Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms..

Black-browed :: Black-browed (a.) Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.

Fineer :: Fineer (v. i.) To run in dept by getting goods made up in a way unsuitable for the use of others, and then threatening not to take them except on credit..

Denounce :: Denounce (v. t.) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression.

Scowl :: Scowl (n.) Hence, gloom; dark or threatening aspect..

Imminent :: Imminent (a.) Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous.

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..

Alarm :: Alarm (v. t.) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.

Scowl :: Scowl (v. i.) Hence, to look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower..

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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