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v. To express a threat against.

v. To be a source of danger to; menace.

v. To give signs or warning of; portend.

v. To announce the possibility of in a threat.

verb-intransitive. To express or use threats.

verb-intransitive. To indicate danger or harm.

v. To make a threat against someone; to use threats.

v. To menace, or be dangerous.

v. To portend, or give a warning.

v. 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.

v. To exhibit the appearance of (something evil or unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce the conditional infliction of.

verb-intransitive. To use threats, or menaces; also, to have a threatening appearance.

To use threats or menaces; have a menacing aspect.

To give indication of menace, or of impending danger or mischief; become overcast, as the sky.

To declare an intention of doing mischief to or of bringing evil on: use threats toward; menace; terrify, or attempt to terrify, by menaces: with with before the evil threatened.

To charge or enjoin solemnly or with menace.

To be a menace or source of danger to.

To give ominous indication of; presage; portend: as, the clouds threaten rain or a storm.

To announce or hold out as a penalty or punishment: often followed by an infinitive clause.

Synonyms Menace, Threaten (see menace), forebode, foreshadow.

v. to be a menacing indication of something:

v. pose a threat to; present a danger to

v. to utter intentions of injury or punishment against:

"So, by ruling that German officials had to use the strictest definition of the word threaten, the European parliament freed Germany to pass a law that seemed to have real teeth in protecting the domestic economy while still enabling German officials to approve most takeovers."

threatened    threatening    threatens   

presage    foreshadow    forecast    bode    foretell    betoken    omen    augur    predict    prognosticate   

forebode   

menace    overhang    lower    lour   

Breton    Tibetan    jetton   

unelaborated    biographers'    antigay    andany    unsworn    extern    57-58    siwennian    fire-eating    unrepressed