3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Threaten \Threat"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Threatened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Threatening}.] [OE. [thorn]retenen. See {Threat}, v. t.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. --Acts iv. 17. [1913 Webster] 2. To exhibit the appearance of (something evil or unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death. --Milton. [1913 Webster] The skies look grimly And threaten present blusters. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Syn: To menace. Usage: {Threaten}, {Menace}. Threaten is Anglo-Saxon, and menace is Latin. As often happens, the former is the more familiar term; the latter is more employed in formal style. We are threatened with a drought; the country is menaced with war. [1913 Webster] By turns put on the suppliant and the lord: Threatened this moment, and the next implored. --Prior. [1913 Webster] Of the sharp ax Regardless, that o'er his devoted head Hangs menacing. --Somerville. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: threatened adj : (of flora or fauna) likely in the near future to become endangered; "the spotted owl is a threatened species, not yet an endangered one" From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 25 Moby Thesaurus words for "threatened": augured, between two fires, cornered, endangered, foreshadowed, foreshown, foretokened, imperiled, in a predicament, in danger, in desperate case, in extremis, in jeopardy, indicated, jeopardized, on the spot, predicted, prefigured, preindicated, presaged, presignified, pretypified, prognosticated, promised, signified
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