Synonym: admonish, advise, alert, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, caution, forebode, harass, intimidate, menace, terrorize, warn. Similar words: threat, thread, create, three, threshold, with regard to, with respect to, great. Meaning: ['θretn] 
v. 1. pose a threat to; present a danger to 2. to utter intentions of injury or punishment against:"He threatened me when I tried to call the police" 3. to be a menacing indication of something:"The clouds threaten rain".
v. 1. pose a threat to; present a danger to 2. to utter intentions of injury or punishment against:"He threatened me when I tried to call the police" 3. to be a menacing indication of something:"The clouds threaten rain". 
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61. Censorship will continue to threaten Britain's lesbian and gay communities from within as well as from without.
62. In other words, failure on one new project could threaten the very existence of the company.
63. They scoff, and speak with malice; in their arrogance they threaten oppression.
64. Ten percent would threaten him, as Inkatha's militancy is not matched by mass support throughout the country.
65. A fundamental policy split between them could threaten the successful functioning of the single currency.
66. These issues will be the subject of Congressional hearings this month, but are unlikely to threaten the tour schedule.
67. Deck's theories threaten to make over-explicit what is more subtly revealed through metaphor.
68. If it is not rape to threaten a woman other than with immediate violence, questions will inevitably arise about other situations.
69. Yet all of these new ideas threaten that natural desert ecosystem, Evans says.
70. Secretions which block or threaten to block his airway have to be removed by suction.
71. The plane crash involves Dave with drug dealers, killers and federal agents, all of whom threaten his peace and family.
72. They can also threaten to get rid of you or deselect you.
73. A sudden collapse could cause a run on mutual funds, which could in turn threaten the financial system.
74. How could one river cause so much damage and threaten the livelihoods of so many farmers and landowners?
75. Indeed, in the long term, provider networks may threaten the very existence of HMOs as they are now known.
76. Of late, the preponderance of public relations firms have leveraged that influence against activists and proposed legislation that threaten big business.
77. They threaten not just our ability to enjoy our towns and countryside but our health and our children's future.
78. Only when work is optional, highly remunerative, or competitive with male labor does it threaten ideal motherhood.
79. The Pembrokeshire Shell Fishermen's Association challenge the claim, and warn that any such ban will threaten the livelihoods of locals.
80. Unfunded pension commitments threaten to push this debt to new and unsustainable levels early in the next century.
81. Carbon dioxide and moisture threaten to efface the Lascaux cave drawings.
82. Lower interest rates designed to pep up the corporate sector threaten to add more fuel to the consumer boom.
83. They asked for more, repeatedly, and continued to harass and threaten her.
84. When this happens it can dramatically slash profits - and can even threaten a business with extinction.
85. It means caring in circumstances which threaten both the well-being of family members and the economic survival of the household.
86. This production charts her struggle with, and ultimately victory over, the circumstances which threaten to destroy her.
87. But there are plenty of things that threaten anew to knock Clinton off his presidential perch.
88. Attempts to jail him on false charges,(http://sentencedict.com/threaten.html) to bribe and threaten him had failed.
89. The build-up of ice on roofs is also creating leaks that threaten internal wiring and pose a fire hazard.
90. By 1921 indeed frustration with coalition was building up such a head of steam as seriously to threaten its future.
More similar words: threat, thread, create, three, threshold, with regard to, with respect to, great, treaty, retreat, entreat, greatly, creating, creature, treatment, breathing, theater, out of breath, sweater, patent, break through, repeatedly, eat, neat, feather, eat up, wheat, leather, come at, cheat.