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Another word for threaten

Verb

  1. To domineer or drive into compliance by the use of as threats or force, for example

    2. See also:

    over

  2. To subject to danger or destruction

    3. See also:

    safety

  3. To give warning signs of (impending peril)

    4. See also:

    foresight

  4. To be imminent

    5. See also:

    near

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Synonym Study

  • Menace stresses the frightening or hostile character of that which threatens he menaced me with a revolver
  • Threaten implies a warning of impending punishment, danger, evil, etc. as by words, actions, events, conditions, or signs he threatened to retaliate, the clouds threaten rain
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Sentence Examples

  • to threaten him with a hundred strokes of the halberd.

  • Did he threaten you?

  • Let the thunder rumble; what if it threaten ruin to farmers' crops?

  • Did he touch you or threaten you in any way?

  • It seemed to threaten the very foundations of religion itself.

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