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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.


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              Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak
              henceforth to no man in this name.    --Acts iv. 17.
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     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.
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              The skies look grimly
              And threaten present blusters.        --Shak.
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     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.
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                  By turns put on the suppliant and the lord:
                  Threatened this moment, and the next implored.
                                                    --Prior.
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                  Of the sharp ax
                  Regardless, that o'er his devoted head
                  Hangs menacing.                   --Somerville.
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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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