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

Penal :: Penal (a.) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code..

Hover :: Hover (v. i.) To hang about; to move to and fro near a place, threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely..

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

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

Menace :: Menace (n.) The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.

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

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..

Malignant :: Malignant (a.) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria..

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

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

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

Black :: Black (a.) Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks..

Bravado :: Bravado (n.) Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.

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

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..

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

Growl :: Growl (n.) The deep, threatening sound made by a surly dog; a grumbling sound..

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

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