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threatened
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bulge, hang over |
| Synonyms: | be imminent, be suspended, beetle, cast a shadow, command, dangle over, droop over, endanger, extend, flap over, impend, jut, loom, menace, overtop, poke, portend, pouch, project, protrude, rise above, stand out, stick out, swing over, threaten, tower above |
| Main Entry: | snarl |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grumble |
| Synonyms: | abuse, bark, bluster, bully, complain, fulminate, gnarl, gnash teeth, growl, mumble, murmur, mutter, quarrel, show teeth, snap, threaten, thunder, yelp |
| Antonyms: | laugh |
| Main Entry: | thunder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | yell at |
| Synonyms: | bark, bellow, curse, declaim, denounce, fulminate, gnarl, growl, rail, roar, shout, snarl, threaten, utter threat |
| Main Entry: | undermine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | weaken |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, blunt, clip one's wings, corrode, cripple, debilitate, dig, dig out, disable, eat away, enfeeble, erode, excavate, foil, frustrate, hollow out, hurt, impair, knock the bottom out of, mine, poke full of holes, ruin, sabotage, sandbag, sap, soften, subvert, threaten, thwart, torpedo, tunnel, undercut, wear, whittle away, wreck |
| Antonyms: | strengthen |
| Main Entry: | warn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give notice of possible occurrence |
| Synonyms: | acquaint, address, admonish, advise, advocate, alert, apprise, caution, clue, clue in, counsel, cry wolf, deprecate, direct, dissuade, enjoin, exhort, fill in, forbid, forearm, forewarn, give fair warning, give the high sign, give warning, guide, hint, inform, instruct, lay it out, make aware, notify, order, post, predict, prepare, prescribe, prompt, put on guard, recommend, remind, remonstrate, reprove, signal, suggest, summon, tell, threaten, tip, tip off, urge, wise up |
| Main Entry: | blackjack |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | coerce |
| Synonyms: | force, influence, intimidate, pressure, threaten |
| Main Entry: | bullyrag |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | intimidate |
| Synonyms: | annoy, antagonize, badger, bait, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, chivy, coerce, harass, heckle, hector, hound, menace, mistreat, taunt, tease, terrorize, threaten, torment |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | menace |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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| Concept: | [Motion towards] Approach. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
approach, approximation, appropinquation; access; appulse; afflux, affluxion; advent (approach of time); pursuit.
-verbs
approach, approximate, appropinquate; near; get near, go near, draw near; come to close quarters, come near; move towards, set in towards; drift; make up to; gain upon; pursue; tread on the heels of; bear up; make the land; hug the shore, hug the land.
-adjectives
approaching; approximative; affluent; impending, imminent (destined [more]).
-adverbs
on the road.
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| Antonyms: | recession (Motion from)] |
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