Definition of threaten

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Threaten (v. t.) To exhibit the appearance of (something evil or unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death..

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Threat :: Threat (n.) To threaten.
Denunciator :: Denunciator (n.) One who denounces, publishes, or proclaims, especially intended or coming evil; one who threatens or accuses..
Blackmail :: Blackmail (v. t.) To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud..
Lowering :: Lowering (a.) Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky..
Denunciatory :: Denunciatory (a.) Characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory; accusing; threatening; as, severe and denunciatory language..
Menace :: Menace (n.) To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; -- usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war..
Impend :: Impend (v. i.) To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten frome near at hand; to menace; to be imminent. See Imminent.
Interminate :: Interminate (v. t.) To menace; to threaten.
Threatening :: Threatening () a. & n. from Threaten, v..
Impending :: Impending (a.) Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening.
Black-browed :: Black-browed (a.) Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.
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..
Black :: Black (adv.) Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.
Thunderbolt :: Thunderbolt (n.) Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination..
Minacious :: Minacious (a.) Threatening; menacing.
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..
Imminent :: Imminent (a.) Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril.
Duress :: Duress (n.) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense..
Threaten :: Threaten (v. t.) To exhibit the appearance of (something evil or unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death..
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..
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