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Adjective threatening has 2 senses
- baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening, ugly - threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"
Antonym: unalarming (indirect, via alarming)
- heavy, lowering, sullen, threatening - darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"
Antonym: clear (indirect, via cloudy)
Verb threaten has 3 senses
- endanger, jeopardize, jeopardise, menace, threaten, imperil, peril - pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops"
--1 is one way to exist, be
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
=> Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
- threaten - to utter intentions of injury or punishment against:"He threatened me when I tried to call the police"
--2 is one way to warn
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot threaten Sue
- threaten - to be a menacing indication of something:"The clouds threaten rain"; "Danger threatens"
--3 is one way to bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something ----s something
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