Word Meanings - THREATEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.

Additional info about word: THREATEN

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. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. Acts iv. 17. 2. To exhibit the appearance of as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death. Milton. The skies look grimly And threaten present blusters. Shak. Syn. -- To menace. -- 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. By turns put on the suppliant and the lord: Threatened this moment, and the next implored. Prior. Of the sharp ax Regardless, that o'er his devoted head Hangs menacing. Somerville.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of THREATEN)

• Drew
• Concoct
• compound
• mix
• hatch
• prepare
• season
• threaten
• impend
• increase
• collect
• form
• gather
• grow
• Hector Bully
• swagger
• annoy
• bluster
• boast
• vaunt
• harass
• tease
• worry
• Impend
• Hover
• Intimidate
• Frighten
• alarm
• deter
• dishearten
• scare
• appall
• browbeat
• cow
• Portend
• Indicate
• prognosticate
• forbode
• augur
• presage
• herald
• foreshow
• betoken

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of THREATEN)

• Compose
• embolden
• reassure
• rally
• Resolve
• analyze

Related words: (words related to THREATEN)

• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• TEASER
  A jager gull. (more info) 1. One who teases or vexes.
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• HATCHURE
  See HACHURE
• HECTORISM
  The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying.
• HERALD
  An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character. 2. In the Middle Ages, the officer
• HARASS
  To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature
• CONCOCTER
  One who concocts.
• VAUNT
  To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag. Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. Gov. of Tongue.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• HOVER-HAWK
  The kestrel.
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• DISHEARTENMENT
  Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
• BOASTFUL
  Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• HATCHETTINE; HATCHETTITE
  Mineral t
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• ALARM
  1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• INAUGURATE
  Invested with office; inaugurated. Drayton. (more info) omens from the flight of birds (before entering upon any important undertaking); hence, to consecrate, inaugurate, or install, with such
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• PASTORALLY
  1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.