threaten
verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026
to utter intentions of injury or punishment against:'He threatened me when I tried to call the police'
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Senses
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to be a menacing indication of something:'The clouds threaten rain'
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pose a threat to
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Cognitive
Understand72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Automation
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Variants
- synonym
- peril
- pasttense
- threatened
- presentparticiple
- threatening
- thirdpersonsingular
- threatens
- pastparticiple
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