threat

threat
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Declaration of intention to harm
Nouns
1. threat, menace, intimidation, commination, minacity, terrorism; empty threat, fulmination, sword- or saber-rattling; defiance; yellow menace or peril; blackmail, extortion. See futurity, fear, warning.
2. thunder[bolt], gathering clouds, red sky in the morning; foreboding, imminence, omen, warning; bad eye; notice; peril, jeopardy, danger.
Verbs
1. threaten, menace, intimidate, comminate, fulminate; terrorize, frighten, hector, cow, bully, browbeat; snarl, growl, mutter, bark, thunder, bluster, brandish; jeopardize, imperil, endanger; blackmail, extort; talk big, look daggers, shake the fist at; carry a big stick. Slang, shake down, buy a woof or wolf ticket, maumau, heavy.
2. portend, presage, augur, omen, [fore]bode, foreshadow (see prediction), impend, be imminent, overhang, lower, lour, loom, hang over one's head.
Adjectives — threatening, menacing, intimidative, denunciatory, fulminatory, bullying; warning, cautionary, dangerous, perilous, jeopardous; ominous, foreboding, lowering, looming, etc.; baleful, baneful, thundery, dire[ful], awful, sinister, dark, black.
Phrases — threatened men live long.
Quotations — Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere (Martin Luther King, Jr.).
Antonyms, see safety.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. menace, peril, fulmination, intimidation; see warning .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
intimidation, scare, menace, danger, peril, hazard, jeopardy, dark cloud on the horizon, *sword of Damocles, portent, *sleeping giant.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. An expression of the intent to hurt or punish another: intimidation, menace. See WARN. 2. An indication of impending danger or harm: foreboding, forewarning, thundercloud. Idioms: gathering clouds, storm clouds. See FORESIGHT. 3. One regarded as an imminent danger: menace, sword of Damocles. Idiom: clear and present danger. See SAFETY.

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