VI. WORDS RELATING TO THE SENTIMENT AND MORAL POWERS
III. SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS
2. Diffusive Sympathetic Affections
Threat.
[Nouns] threat, menace; defiance [more]; abuse, minacity, intimidation; denunciation; fulmination; commination (curse) [more]; gathering clouds (warning) [more].
[Verbs] threat, threaten; menace; snarl, growl, gnarl, mutter, bark, bully.
defy [more]; intimidate [more]; keep in terrorem, hold up in terrorem, hold out in terrorem; shake the fist at, double the fist at, clinch the fist at; thunder, talk big, fulminate, use big words, bluster, look daggers.
[Adjectives] threatening, menacing; minatory, minacious; comminatory, abusive; in terrorem; ominous (predicting) [more] ; defiant [more]; under the ban.
