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Synonyms for threaten
ˈθrɛt nthreat·en
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Princeton's WordNet
endanger, jeopardize, jeopardise, menace, threaten, imperil, perilverb
pose a threat to; present a danger to
"The pollution is endangering the crops"
Synonyms:
imperil, stake, venture, peril, jeopardise, endanger, menace, hazard, jeopardize, scupper, expose, adventurethreatenverb
to utter intentions of injury or punishment against:"He threatened me when I tried to call the police"
Synonyms:
jeopardize, imperil, jeopardise, endanger, peril, menacethreatenverb
to be a menacing indication of something:"The clouds threaten rain"
"Danger threatens"
Synonyms:
jeopardize, imperil, jeopardise, endanger, peril, menace
Dictionary of English Synonymes
threatenverb
threatenverb
Synonyms:
portend, presage, forebode, augur, foreshadow, prognosticate, indicatethreatenverb
Synonyms:
impend, be near at hand, be imminent, stare one in the face
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
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List of paraphrases for "threaten":
endanger, threatens, threat, jeopardise, jeopardize, threatening, threats, imperil, undermine
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#2310 | adventure | |
#3891 | threat | |
#4513 | venture | |
#6254 | threats | |
#7304 | hazard | |
#9902 | threatening | |
#9992 | stake | |
#12366 | expose | |
#13701 | threaten | |
#15548 | threatens | |
#17827 | undermine | |
#19164 | menace | |
#22996 | peril | |
#32731 | endanger | |
#35532 | jeopardize | |
#88389 | jeopardise | |
#121668 | imperil | |
#156758 | scupper |
How to use threaten in a sentence?
Listen, if Donald becomes president, who the heck knows what he would do? Even Donald doesn't know what he would do, and I think the challenges facing this country are too grave to roll the dice and risk losing the Supreme Court for a generation, risk yet more economic stagnation and risk on foreign policy allowing radical Islamic terrorism to continue to rise and threaten America.
You know that the odds are that a grass fire is going to run through open country here. But they can threaten towns, i know we had the town of Skellytown that was threatened by a fire earlier this year.
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.
As mankind descends into the depths of evil, echoing the times of Joshua, prayer emerges as the singular force capable of summoning God's intervention for our deliverance from the clutches of the malevolent. In the face of our own contemporary challenges, let our collective prayers rise as a beacon of hope, seeking divine mercy and guidance to navigate the shadows that threaten to engulf us.
Commander Admiral Scott Swift:
Even now, ships and aircraft operating nearby these features, in accordance with international law are subject to superfluous warnings that threaten routine and commercial operations.
Translations for threaten
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- هدد, هَدَّدَArabic
- заплашвамBulgarian
- amenaçarCatalan, Valencian
- vyhrožovat, hrozitCzech
- androhen, drohen, bedrohenGerman
- απειλώGreek
- minaciEsperanto
- amenazarSpanish
- uhata, vaarantaa, enteilläFinnish
- menacerFrench
- maoidhScottish Gaelic
- धमकानाHindi
- minacciareItalian
- 威嚇, 脅かす, 脅す, 脅迫Japanese
- insto, minorLatin
- takutaku, kapatauMāori
- trueNorwegian
- dreigen, bedreigenDutch
- truge, trueNorwegian Nynorsk
- grozić, zagrażaćPolish
- ameaçarPortuguese
- amenințaRomanian
- угрожать, предвещать, грозитьRussian
- grozitiSlovene
- hotaSwedish
- gözünü korkutmakTurkish
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