threaten
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to utter intentions of injury or punishment against:'He threatened me when I tried to call the police'
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Classifications
Cognitive
Understand72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Responsibility
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Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Variants
- synonym
- peril
- pasttense
- threatened
- presentparticiple
- threatening
- thirdpersonsingular
- threatens
- pastparticiple
- threatened
Framework definitions
- §1
- to utter intentions of injury or punishment against:'He threatened me when I tried to call the police'
- §2
- to be a menacing indication of something:'The clouds threaten rain'
- §3
- pose a threat to
- §1 · legacy_primary
- to utter intentions of injury or punishment against:'He threatened me when I tried to call the police'DR-088 backfill from the verb definition column
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