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".
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121. And they overlook the determination in Europe to make the euro stick—because to pull it apart would be ruinously costly and threaten the EU's very existence.
122. In fact, many of these ideas have been on the drawing board for years as part of NASA's planetary defense program against large space-based objects that might threaten Earth.
123. Now, as greater dangers threaten their conquests, charr legions and their war machines prepare for battle.
124. However, after all, perfect person nearly inexistence , once individual is subjected to media scrutiny, will his reputation tend to be threaten.
125. He asked the Democrats to work with him to reform the entitlement programs of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, which threaten to balloon into enormous long-term liabilities.
126. The hunt, officials here and in Moscow said, could resume as soon as this year or next, once a census is carried out and an annual quota that would not threaten the bears is set.
127. Moscow has threatened to target its missiles at former Warsaw Pact countries that host western military facilities, saying the U.S. missile shield plans threaten Russian security.
128. Some serious problems threaten the cultivation of bay scallop is analyzed and some suggestions are raised by author in this paper for sustainable development of cultivation of bay scallop in future.
129. Apparently he'd expected me to burst into tears, to rage at him, to threaten him with a 9) custody battle.
130. At the first blush, the princes of Europe, the owls of this dawn, shut their eyes, wounded and stupefied, and only opened them to threaten.
131. The popular Tagalog and Filipino languages threaten small indigenous languages in the Philippines.
132. These factors seriously threaten the survival and development of the Yugur folksong. Therefore it is extremely urgent for protection and inheritance of the folksong.
133. Electrical network flashing will threaten the safe operation of gas expander - main blower set in FCC unit.
134. Just as crops are harvested wildlife too must sometimes be "harvested". By allowing limited hunting, good management can control certain species that threaten to overpopulate their habitat.
135. The first is that the new rules threaten to politicise issues that were, in most cases, happily looked after at home.
136. Milan will travel to Florence to play high-flying Fiorentina, before revisiting Istanbul when Fenerbahce will threaten to give them another Champions League nightmare.
137. But "any time we threaten our partners by withholding sex or love whether we're male or female, we take the relationship in a negative direction."
138. So good is Gasol, so good are the Lakers, he gets a little love when the MVP voting rolls around. Not enough to actually win (or even threaten), but a nice little feather in his sombrero nonetheless.
139. In order to meet the increasingly serious threaten of the Laser Range Finder and object identifier in the battlefield, it is important to develop the laser warning technology.
140. The facilities corrosion problems in the petrochemical enterprises not only make the cost of replacing and maintaining facilities increased, but also threaten safe operation of thingamy severely.
141. U.S. soldiers wander through Mali's river port cities each evening after teaching Malian forces how to fight terrorists and rebels who threaten to take over the country's lawless northern region.
142. The major mode of our country -supermarket is faced with more and more threaten after China joined WTO.
143. I hope he will be amenable to reason, but if he cuts up rough I'll threaten him with legal action.
144. Of course, Beijing may react harshly to some of these measures and threaten a renewed embargo on the export of rare earth metals.
145. No matter what government or corporation, has taken the threaten of the multinational corporation's entry.
146. Much like the roar of a Bengal Tiger, those who would threaten to continue to do damage to one's field are held at bay as one stands their ground and terrorizes the forces of the dark into retracting.
147. Have plead for sb , threaten, also have those who talk about a condition.
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148. Invaders such as purple-flowered Asian melastome and strawberry guava threaten to overrun delicate Hawaiian natives such as thornless roses and delicate tree ferns.
149. I savor the gentle, quiet terror of reading cuneiform tablets that threaten to crumble at my very presence.
150. Will Planet X or Eris approach the Earth and threaten our planet with destruction?
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.