Word Finder - threatening

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To make a threat against someone; to use threats.

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He threatened me with a knife.

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To menace, or be dangerous.

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The rocks threatened the ship's survival.

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To portend, or give a warning of.

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The black clouds threatened heavy rain.

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To be close to equaling or surpassing (a record, etc.)

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An act of threatening; a threat.

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Presenting a threat; menacing; frightening.

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Never turn your back to someone who is displaying threatening behavior.

Her eyes burned with threatening tears.

It's a relationship threatening to sink our ship.

And Uncle Nicholas stood before them in a stern and threatening attitude.

It was this exemption, threatening the very foundations of the Mussulman government, that finally led to a rupture with the nawab.

The ATV climbed over large rocks, threatening to unseat them both at any moment.

Is he threatening you?

Hopefully it would offer some kind of shelter from the threatening storm.

He gave Allen a last threatening look and stalked off to the house.

In the distance they were dark and threatening.

An infection that reaches the blood stream can be life threatening.

When pressed, they opined only that Brandon Westlake acted more suicidal than threatening but they had been with him for several minutes where Lydia had just arrived.

While not using threats of personal violence, as was generally reported at the time, his language was threatening and offensive.

The plaintive moan of reproach was drowned by the threatening and angry roar of the crowd.

Cade was her boss, and thinking such things was not only disrespectful of him, but job threatening as well - especially if he suspected the existence of such thoughts.

His jaw tightened and his voice was low and threatening.

Partly because of political and social divisions thus revealed, conspiracies being rife in the decade 1820-1830, and partly as preparation for the defence against Mexico and Colombia, who throughout these same years were threatening the island with invasion, the captains-general, in 1825, received the powers above referred to; which became, as time passed, monstrously in disaccord with the general tendencies of colonial government and with increasing liberties in Spain, but continued to be the spiritual basis of Spanish rule in the island.

But something; no someone, was threatening that tranquility.

On the day of the funeral Peter addressed to Alexius a stern letter of warning and remonstrance, urging him no longer to resemble the slothful servant in the parable, and threatening to cut him off, as though he were a gangrenous swelling, if he did not acquiesce in his father's plans.

He went with Nero's suite to Greece, and in 66 was appointed to conduct the war in Judaea, which was threatening general commotion throughout the East, owing to a widely spread notion in those parts that from Judaea were to come the future rulers of the world.

Trembling and panting the old man fell into that state of fury in which he sometimes used to roll on the ground, and he fell upon Eykhen, threatening him with his hands, shouting and loading him with gross abuse.

I'd use the wrong towel or leave a dish out, and then you'd be threatening to kill me again.

But as the captain of the " Endeavour " ordered out the pinnace and prepared to land, the natives threw off their nonchalance; for on the boat approaching the shore, two men, each armed with a bundle of spears, presented themselves on a projecting rock and made threatening signs to the strangers.

He then on the 7th of October drew up a final plan, in which one again recognizes the old commander, and this he immediately proceeded to put into execution, for he was now quite aware of the danger threatening his line of retreat from both Blucher and Schwarzenberg and the North Army; yet only a few hours afterwards the portion of the order relating to St Cyr and Lobau was cancelled and the two were finally left behind at Dresden.

The attitude of Sigismund, king of the Romans, who sent threatening letters to Bohemia declaring.

Athens, whose general Chares had supported Artabazus, was by the threatening messages of the king forced to conclude peace, and to acknowledge the independence of its rebellious allies (355 B.C.).

By threatening me, by condemning me, and finally, by seeking a discreet audience with me.

To me, he signified the threatening danger was not so much death, as permanent alienation of intellect.

The major life threatening complication affects the aorta, which is the major vessel arising from the main pumping chamber of the heart.

Rats and feral cats have been introduced and have established themselves in the area, threatening endemic birds.

Final episodes usually involve threatening the continuation of the series ' central concept.

Of more long-term concern must be the general despondency and malaise that is threatening to smother everything at the club.

The oil is threatening important populations of water voles, a nationally endangered mammal, and the wildlife of the Humber Estuary.

Jared Ashley went on to further claim that John Rich left threatening voice mail messages on his phone.

Carmen glanced quickly outside to see if the threatening snow had arrived.

Russia and England hereupon used threatening language, and Turkey replaced the hospodars.

He also had committed blasphemy by threatening the uniqueness of God's presence.

These enable any pilot, however inexperienced, to destroy the asteroids threatening the mining bases.

Non-indigenous flatworms prey on the native earthworm, threatening earthworm populations.

If a person has a life threatening illness or injury then they should still call 999.

Already the cartoonists are portraying Brown as a kind of Dr. Hyde figure Ð a dark and threatening character with a lantern jaw.

The dash for exports is also threatening rural livelihoods.

Greene has made it his mission to ride forth and battle the obesity ogre that's threatening us!

Grove House Provides specialist palliative care on a daily basis to all people affected by cancer or a life threatening illness.

To catch the rattlesnake, the hawk will approach the snake by walking with its wings outstretched making it look large & threatening.

Their decision came after BECTU issued an ultimatum threatening strike action in support of a suspended shop steward.

Many codes of practice would support the breaking of confidentiality in the case where a client is threatening to kill somebody or themselves.

His son's behavior becomes increasingly bizarre and threatening and his devoted wife begins to grow distant.

At first the new machinery acted well; the public mind was tranquil, and the war with Pisa - not as yet of threatening proportions - was enough to occupy the Florentines and prevent internecine feuds.

Leave a voicemail message where you deliberately omit every other word and act like the message is important, but not "life threatening."

Snoring is mostly a nuisance, but in some situations can be a life threatening condition.