Thesaurus / threatens
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synonyms for threatens
- warn
- imperil
- jeopardize
- advance
- loom
- impend
- presage
- portend
- foreshadow
- forebode
- frighten
- approach
- overhang
- come on
- brewing
- be dangerous
- be gathering
- be imminent
- be in the air
- be in the offing
- be on the horizon
- hang over
- put at risk
- put in jeopardy
antonyms for threatens
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The legal framework of the State and of obedience to the law in which industrial society is set threatens to break asunder.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKThe attempt at social change threatens a social revolution in which the whole elaborate mechanism would burst into fragments.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKGee Gee threatens to take 89 my standing up with Mr. Sharp if I dont do well, too.
THE GIRLS OF CENTRAL HIGH ON THE STAGEGERTRUDE W. MORRISONLess can be said to justify the extravagant language in which Almanzor threatens his enemies, and vaunts his own importance.
THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, VOLUME 4 (OF 18)JOHN DRYDENBut on the other hand, Magazines are forming, troops marching, in a style which threatens Gibraltar.
PRIVATE LETTERS OF EDWARD GIBBON (1753-1794) VOLUME 1 (OF 2)EDWARD GIBBONTo enter them with a regular force is an operation which threatens it with destruction.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL.III.E. FARR AND E. H. NOLANShe even threatens to strike the bell, when the Count de Carojac appears, and warns his rival to desist.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PLAYBRONSON HOWARDWhen any new danger threatens they lay the blame on Moses; they even foolishly regret that they had not died in Egypt.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IIJOHN LORD"Then the government knows, better than we do, that the border trouble threatens to grow acute," remarked Lieutenant Sears.
UNCLE SAM'S BOYS AS LIEUTENANTSH. IRVING HANCOCKIt threatens his whole doctrine of compact, and its darling derivatives, nullification and secession, with instant confutation.
SELECT SPEECHES OF DANIEL WEBSTERDANIEL WEBSTER