Threat

Noun

 * 1) an expression of intent to injure or punish another.
 * 2) an indication of imminent danger.
 * 3) a person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.

Verb

 * 1)  To threaten.

Adjectives for Threat
invincible; silent; bawling; thundering; terrible; cloudy; stifled; obscure; serious; muttered; ruffian; dark; playful; mysterious; desperate; fearful; insolent; parting; fantastic; bitter; petty; absurd; contemporaneous; drunken; implied; private; tense; whispered; violent; sullen; tyrannous; sibylline.

Verbs for Threat
aim—at; bandy—s; fling—at; fulminate—; hurl—; mutter—; retract—; resort to—s;roar—; thunder—; thwart—; unleash—; veil—; yield to—s; —alarms; —bluffs; — browbeats; —coerces; —compromises; — cows; —daunts; —deters; —disconcerts; — distresses; —hangs over; —haunts; —indicts; —intimidates; —jeopardizes; —menaces; —obsesses; —perturbs; —preys upon; —stings; —unnerves; —weighs upon; —awes.

Thesaurus
admonishment, admonition, alarm, breakers ahead, cardhouse, cause for alarm, caution, caveat, commination, crisis, danger, dangerous ground, deterrent example, emergency, endangerment, example, final notice, final warning, foreboding, forewarning, gaping chasm, gathering clouds, hazard, hint, house of cards, imperilment, intimation, intimidation, jeopardy, lesson, menace, monition, moral, notice, notification, object lesson, omen, pass, peril, pinch, plight, portent, predicament, presage, quicksand, risk, rocks ahead, storm clouds, strait, thin ice, tip-off, ultimatum, verbum sapienti, warning, warning piece

Etymology
þreat:.

Pronunciation




Related terms

 * threaten
 * threatening
 * pose a threat

Noun

 * Arabic: تهديد
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:, výhrůžka
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 脅迫, 脅かし


 * Kurdish:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: претња
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Croatian:
 * Czech: hrozba, ohrožení
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese: 脅威
 * Kurdish:


 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Czech: hrozba
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 脅威


 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: amenaza
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * Hatter, hatter