See menace in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
One regarded as an imminent danger:
sword of Damocles, threat. Idiom: clear and present danger. See safetyAn expression of the intent to hurt or punish another:
intimidation, threat. See warn
verb
To domineer or drive into compliance by the use of as threats or force, for example:
bludgeon, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, bullyrag, cow, hector, intimidate, threaten. (Informal) strong-arm. See overTo subject to danger or destruction:
endanger, imperil, jeopardize, peril, risk, threaten. See safetyTo be imminent:
brew, hang over, impend, loom, lower1, overhang, threaten. See near
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