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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151. Typically, sales trail off as consumers wait for the new model to launch, but that hasn't happened as gas prices continued to soar beyond $4 a gallon and threaten to reach $5 a gallon this summer.
152. Upper limb lymphedema after mastectomy can severely threaten physical and mental health and life quality of the patients.
153. Singapore's prime minister warned Sunday in his National Day speech that "aggressive preaching" by religious groups and attempts to convert others threaten the tiny city-state's stability.
154. Yet recent declines in the population of these essential insects threaten the lucrative agricultural industry.
155. The atypical pneumonia (SARS) and avian flu have brought tremendous threaten to human's healthy.
156. Energy crises will threaten our existence because of our excessive exploitation and because of the growing population.
157. Under its revised Nuclear Posture Review, the Obama administration committed April 6 not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states that comply with the NPT.
158. The State Forest Administration will set up 150 observation stations nationwide and publicise any outbreaks of animal disease that could threaten human health.
159. I later learned that it's an old obstetric trick to threaten the mother oftwins with a C-section in order to get her to push out the second baby, but Dr. Gold insisted he wasn't playing that game.
160. Indeed, it's the songs of Pollard's erstwhile sideman, Tobin Sprout, that threaten to steal this particular show.
161. Stress is a kind of mentation when an individual faces the unaccommodated environment or feels in threaten, and stress is a kind of reaction when an individual deals with threaten or challenge.
162. The existence of gangdom brought serious problem to Korea, threaten, blackmail, a series of evildoing such as staking added social unrest element greatly.
163. Which of the Final Five Cylons does President Adama threaten to airlock in order to break the stalemate with D'Anna and the rebel Cylon fleet?
164. The Associated Press said the drifting ice island from the Petermann glacier could threaten oil platforms and shipping.
165. Mora argued that these practices threaten the entire military commission process.
166. It is a shocking event that reminds people of some more basic risks that may threaten the economies of the densely-populated and seismically vulnerable Japanese archipelago.
167. While Houston did not take the brunt of the storm the way Galveston did, Ike did knock out the city's water pumping systems, and that was sufficient to threaten the whole health-care system.
168. U.S. officials say the missile defense system does not threaten Russia or its defenses, but rather is designed to counter the growing missile threat from Iran.
169. De Silva notes that poaching, habitat encroachment, climate change and other factors threaten wild Asian elephant herds, such as those in Uda Walawe.
170. If an ambitious city state managed to master all of Hellas then a new and dangerous power would threaten to unbalance the tense equilibrium of the four empires.
171. Sean Connery was forced to threaten legal action after learning that he was "starring" in adverts for an anti-impotence drug alongside David Beckham – who was similarly furious.
172. The unhappiness burnout causes can eventually threaten your job, your relationships, and your health.
173. They threaten you to hand out a top - secret document?
174. Air pollution may threaten the future of one of east Asia's top financial destinations. Eric Cheng reports on a way to count the cost of the problem.
175. Thai law requires that any person who "slander, insult, or threaten the king, queen, crown prince or the prince regent, " and they could face punishment from 3 to 15 years in prison.
176. "The notion that China can threaten us with their large Treasury holdings is not serious," said Robert Scott, director of international programs at the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute.
177. Wheel tread wear is one of the main causes that threaten safety of trains, a kind of method is put forward, which is the subtraction of pattern recognition applying in the wheel tread wear of trains.
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178. In the meantime, Philippine's export keeps plunging and falling price of palm also begins to threaten the export situation of Indonesia and Malaysia.
179. But Canberra should not sign up to the next US agenda item, which is to threaten China over its managed currency, accusing China of currency manipulation to win unfair export advantage.
180. Rising average temperatures, for example, threaten to unlock long-frozen stores of carbon dioxide and methane -- at least 20 times as potent a greenhouse gas as CO2 -- from the region's permafrost.
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