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English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: threatening
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: threatening
threatening
adj 1: 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” [syn:
baleful,
forbidding,
menacing,
minacious,
minatory,
ominous,
sinister,
ugly]
2: darkened by clouds;
“a heavy sky” [syn:
heavy,
lowering,
sullen]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Threatening
Threatening
\Threat"en*ing\,
a. & n. from
Threaten, v. --
Threat"en*ing*ly, adv.
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Threatening letters (Law), letters containing threats,
especially those designed to extort money, or to obtain
other property, by menaces; blackmailing letters.
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Threaten
\Threat"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Threatened; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Threatening.] [OE. [thorn]retenen. See
Threat, v.
t.]
1. To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with
apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the
promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn.
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Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak
henceforth to no man in this name. --Acts iv. 17.
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2. To exhibit the appearance of (something evil or
unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to
announce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten
war; to threaten death. --Milton.
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The skies look grimly
And threaten present blusters. --Shak.
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Syn: To menace.
Usage:
Threaten,
Menace. Threaten is Anglo-Saxon, and
menace is Latin. As often happens, the former is the
more familiar term; the latter is more employed in
formal style. We are threatened with a drought; the
country is menaced with war.
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By turns put on the suppliant and the lord:
Threatened this moment, and the next implored.
--Prior.
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Of the sharp ax
Regardless, that o'er his devoted head
Hangs menacing. --Somerville.
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