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Safe :: Safe (superl.) Free from harm, injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as, safe from disease; safe from storms; safe from foes..

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..

Thunderbolt :: Thunderbolt (n.) Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination..

Interminate :: Interminate (v. t.) To menace; to threaten.

Frown :: Frown (v. i.) To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness..

Black :: Black (adv.) Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.

Menace :: Menace (n.) To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted..

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

Threaten :: Threaten (v. t.) To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn..

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

Dangerous :: Dangerous (a.) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with 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..

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

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