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a. & n. from Threaten, v.
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v. t.
To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.
v. i.
To hang about; to move to and fro near a place, threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely.
n.
To threaten.
v. i.
To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age.
v. t.
To treat with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence, to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by bullying.
imp. & p. p.
of Threaten
v. i.
To use threats, or menaces; also, to have a threatening appearance.
v. t.
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.
v. i.
To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.
adv.
In a threatening manner.
n.
Hence, gloom; dark or threatening aspect.
v. t.
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.
n.
One who threatens.
n.
The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation.
n.
To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.
v. i.
Hence, to look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Threaten
n.
Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
n.
To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; -- usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war.
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