threaten

Meaning of threaten

verb
  1. state one's intention to take hostile action against (someone) in retribution for something done or not done.
    how dare you threaten me?
    the men threatened staff with a handgun
    ‘I might sue for damages,’ he threatened
  2. cause (someone or something) to be vulnerable or at risk; endanger.
    a broken finger threatened his career
    one of four London hospitals threatened with closure

Old English thrēatnian ‘urge or induce, especially by using threats’, from thrēat (see threat).

Information about threaten

  • It is a verb.
  • The plural form of threaten is: threatens.
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Hyphenation of threaten

threaten

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
  • threaten is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

threaten synonyms

Meaning endanger:

endanger, jeopardize, menace, imperil, peril

Meaning frighten or overawe (someone), especially in order to make them do what one wants:

intimidate

Meaning intimidate (someone), typically into doing something, with stern or abusive words:

browbeat

Meaning seek to harm, intimidate, or coerce (someone perceived as vulnerable):

bully

Meaning a fully grown female animal of a domesticated breed of ox, kept to produce milk or beef:

cow

Meaning produce or maintain raised pressure artificially in (a gas or its container):

pressurize

Meaning create and maintain a state of extreme fear and distress in (someone); fill with terror:

terrorize

Meaning make (someone) afraid or anxious:

frighten

Meaning cause great fear or nervousness in; frighten:

scare

Meaning make (someone) feel frightened, disturbed, or in danger:

alarm

Translation of threaten

Anagrams of threaten

haterent

Words that rhyme with threaten

Aten, Baten, beaten, bethreaten, browbeaten, drybeaten, eaten, engreaten, farebeaten, greaten, heaten, miseaten, neaten, outeaten, outthreaten, overbeaten, overeaten, prethreaten, rethreaten, sunbeaten, unbeaten, underbeaten, undereaten, uneaten, weatherbeaten, wheaten, Tutankhaten, whaten, Pallaten, laten, platen, somaten, Akhenaten, Boaten, oaten, Paten, paten, Sauerbraten, lambraten, sauerbraten, Staten, quintaten, tenstaten

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