Threat
English
Noun
Threat (plural Threats)- an expression of intent to injure or punish another.
- an indication of imminent danger.
- a person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.
Verb
Threat (third-person singular simple present Threats, present participle Threating, simple past and past participle Threated)
Adjectives for Threat
invincible; silent; bawling; thundering; terrible; cloudy; stifled; obscure; serious; muttered; ruffian; dark; playful; mysterious; desperate; fearful; insolent; parting; fantastic; bitter; petty; absurd; contemporaneous; drunken; implied; private; tense; whispered; violent; sullen; tyrannous; sibylline.
Verbs for Threat
aim—at; bandy—s; fling—at; fulminate—; hurl—; mutter—; retract—; resort to—s;roar—; thunder—; thwart—; unleash—; veil—; yield to—s; —alarms; —bluffs; — browbeats; —coerces; —compromises; — cows; —daunts; —deters; —disconcerts; — distresses; —hangs over; —haunts; —indicts; —intimidates; —jeopardizes; —menaces; —obsesses; —perturbs; —preys upon; —stings; —unnerves; —weighs upon; —awes.
Thesaurus
admonishment, admonition, alarm, breakers ahead, cardhouse, cause for alarm, caution, caveat, commination, crisis, danger, dangerous ground, deterrent example, emergency, endangerment, example, final notice, final warning, foreboding, forewarning, gaping chasm, gathering clouds, hazard, hint, house of cards, imperilment, intimation, intimidation, jeopardy, lesson, menace, monition, moral, notice, notification, object lesson, omen, pass, peril, pinch, plight, portent, predicament, presage, quicksand, risk, rocks ahead, storm clouds, strait, thin ice, tip-off, ultimatum, verbum sapienti, warning, warning piece
