threat /thret/

1. A declaration or indication of an intention to inflict harm, punish or hurt
2. An appearance of impending evil
3. A source of danger (with to)

To threaten

threatˈen transitive verb

1. To offer a threat of, or against
2. To intimidate by threats
3. To seem to impend over
4. To indicate danger of, or to, to portend

1. To use threats
2. To give warning that something is likely to happen
3. To portend evil

threatˈened adjective

threatˈener noun

threatˈening noun adjective

1. Menacing
2. Portending danger or evil
3. (of the sky) heavily clouded over, promising rain, stormy weather, etc

threatˈeningly adverb

threatˈful adjective

Menacing

• let-a-be
• let alone
• let-alone
• let be
• let blood
• let bygones be bygones
• letch
• letched
• letches
• letching
• let down
• let-down
• let-downs
• let drive
• let drop
• let fall
• let fly
• let go
• lethal
• lethalities
• lethality
• lethally
• lethargic
• lethargical
• lethargically