Synonym: menace, scourge, terror. Similar words: threaten, thread, three, threshold, with regard to, with respect to, great, create. Meaning: [θret] 
n. 1. something that is a source of danger 2. a warning that something unpleasant is imminent 3. declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another 4. a person who inspires fear or dread.
n. 1. something that is a source of danger 2. a warning that something unpleasant is imminent 3. declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another 4. a person who inspires fear or dread. 
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(61) Narcotics are a major threat to health.
(62) The threat of closure looms over the workforce.
(63) The threat of nuclear escalation remains.
(64) His threat chilled her to the marrow.
(65) It was a threat to world peace.
(66) It was more of an idle threat than anything.
(67) They feel under permanent threat.
(68) She dismissed the statement as an empty threat .
(69) Ice-floes are a threat to shipping in the area.
(70) Supplies are under increasing threat from overuse and pollution.
(71) The immediate security threat has disappeared.
(72) He broke her by the threat of blackmail.
(73) The threat of death won't overmaster me.
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(74) The rise in crime constitutes a threat to society.
(75) The police have to take any terrorist threat seriously.
(76) He snarled out a threat.
(77) The threat of closure affected the workers' morale.
(78) Many wild plants are under threat of extinction.
(79) A third of Africa is under threat of desertification.
(80) The state often presents a threat to individuality.
(81) I never thought you would carry out your threat.
(82) The Russian threat is, at the least, in abeyance.
(83) The opposition presents no immediate threat to the government.
(84) The threat of war overshadowed the summer of 1939.
(85) Terrorism is a threat to the whole country.
(86) The threat will force greater dispersion of their forces.
(87) He felt it was a threat to his masculinity.
(88) Pollution poses a threat to fish.
(89) Teachers have lifted their threat of strike action.
(90) The threat of litigation can be a deciding factor in some business decisions.
More similar words: threaten, thread, three, threshold, with regard to, with respect to, great, create, treaty, retreat, greatly, entreat, creating, creature, breathing, treatment, out of breath, break through, eat, neat, wheat, come at, leather, eat up, cheat, death, feather, throat, thrive, theater.