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Exact Match:

threaten

to utter intentions of injury or punishment against:"He threatened me when I tried to call the police"

to be a menacing indication of something:"The clouds threaten rain"; "Danger threatens"

Synonyms:

• abuse,
• admonish,
• advise,
• afflict,
• aggrieve,
• alert,
• anticipate,
• apprehend,
• approach,
• augur,
• await,
• be destined,
• be fated,
• be imminent,
• be in store,
• be to be,
• be to come,
• befoul,
• bewitch,
• blight,
• bludgeon,
• bluster,
• bluster out of,
• bode,
• brew,
• browbeat,
• bulldoze,
• bully,
• caution,
• come,
• come on,
• comminate,
• condemn,
• confront,
• corrupt,
• cow,
• croak,
• crucify,
• cry havoc,
• curse,
• damage,
• daunt,
• defile,
• demoralize,
• denounce,
• deprave,
• despoil,
• destroy,
• disadvantage,
• disserve,
• distress,
• do a mischief,
• do evil,
• do ill,
• do wrong,
• do wrong by,
• doom,
• dragoon,
• draw near,
• draw nigh,
• draw on,
• endanger,
• envenom,
• expect,
• face,
• forebode,
• foresee,
• foretell,
• forewarn,
• forthcome,
• gather,
• get into trouble,
• give fair warning,
• give notice,
• give warning,
• hang over,
• harass,
• harm,
• have a premonition,
• have a presentiment,
• hector,
• hex,
• hope,
• hover,
• huff,
• hurt,
• impair,
• impend,
• imperil,
• infect,
• injure,
• intimidate,
• issue an ultimatum,
• jeopardize,
• jinx,
• lie ahead,
• lie over,
• look black,
• look for,
• look forward to,
• look threatening,
• loom,
• lower,
• maltreat,
• menace,
• mistreat,
• molest,
• near,
• notify,
• outrage,
• overhang,
• persecute,
• plan,
• play havoc with,
• play hob with,
• plot,
• poison,
• pollute,
• portend,
• preapprehend,
• predict,
• prejudice,
• presage,
• project,
• prophesy,
• put in jeopardy,
• savage,
• scathe,
• sound the alarm,
• systematically terrorize,
• taint,
• terrorize,
• tip,
• tip off,
• torment,
• torture,
• utter a caveat,
• utter threats against,
• violate,
• warn,
• warn against,
• wound,
• wreak havoc on,
• wrong