threatening in English

adjective

1

having a hostile or deliberately frightening quality or manner.

her mother had received a threatening letter

synonyms: menacing, intimidating, bullying, frightening, hostile, minatory

verb

1

state one's intention to take hostile action against someone in retribution for something done or not done.

the unions threatened a general strike

synonyms: menace, intimidate, browbeat, bully, blackmail, terrorize, make/issue threats to

adjective

menacing, intimidating, bullying, frightening, hostile, minatory
ominous, sinister, menacing, alarming, portentous, dark, black, thunderous
baleful, forbidding, ominous, sinister, minacious, minatory, menacing
lowering, sullen, heavy

verb

menace, endanger, foreshadow, seem likely, jeopardize
menace, intimidate, browbeat, bully, blackmail, terrorize, make/issue threats to
endanger, be a danger to, be a threat to, jeopardize, imperil, put at risk, put in jeopardy
foreshadow, bode, warn of, presage, augur, portend, herald, be a harbinger of, indicate, point to, be a sign of, signal, spell, foretoken
seem likely, seem imminent, be on the horizon, be brewing, be gathering, be looming, be on the way, be impending, hang over someone
jeopardize, peril, imperil, menace, endanger

Use "threatening" in a sentence

1. Threatening a police officer.

2. You know who you're threatening?

3. Are you threatening my client?

4. Placental Abruption is a life-threatening

5. The blood clot isn't life-threatening.

6. Workers are threatening to walk out.

7. This condition has life-threatening consequences.

8. The dog gave a threatening growl.

9. The situation Assumed a threatening character

10. The situation assumed a threatening character.

11. An alien object was threatening the organism.

12. Candidiasis is bothersome but rarely life threatening

13. He was threatening her with our shotgun.

14. *Baleful as death promising evil; very threatening.

15. The acid rain is threatening world environment.

16. 16 The dog gave a threatening growl.

17. Changing patterns of agriculture are threatening the countryside.

18. The river was threatening to burst its banks.

19. Terrorist attacks were threatening to destabilize the government.

20. This Burring policy is now threatening countless lives

21. Our son treats children with life-threatening illnesses.

22. His white face was spiteful, threatening and suggestive.

23. A plague of squirrels is threatening our forests.

24. He was threatening to burn the place down.

25. Metabolic Acidosis may become severe or life-threatening.

26. They're threatening our values and undercutting our institutions.

27. The threatening phone calls started all over again.

28. The Civil Service is/are threatening to strike.

29. Asbestosis Is a Serious, Life-Threatening Respiratory Condition

30. The miners are threatening to withdraw their labour.

31. My boyfriend was threatening to finish with me.

32. The government is threatening to take drastic action.

33. Anaphylactic shock is a life-threatening allergic reaction.

34. Moscow is threatening to sell arms to Iran.

35. They advanced upon me in a threatening manner.

36. Pollution along the coastline is threatening marine life.

37. BW B759U, another analogue of acyclovir, has been used for the treatment of life-threatening or sight-threatening cytomegalovirus infections in AIDS patients.

38. Why is even potential advancement so threatening to you?

39. He had a potentially life-threatening condition called epiglottitis.

40. The war is threatening to engulf the entire region.

41. The two countries were threatening to nuke each other.

42. Toxic chemicals may permeate the soil, threatening the environment.

43. He had a potentially life- threatening condition called epiglottitis.

44. Pollution is threatening the future of the human race.

45. The terrorists are threatening to blow up the plane.

46. 16 His white face was spiteful, threatening and suggestive.

47. Doctors said afterwards the overdose was potentially life threatening.

48. My lungs are screaming and threatening an asthma attack.

49. It includes Browbeating and threatening, verbal abuse and yelling

50. Anticoagulant-associated intracranial hemorrhage is a life-threatening emergency