threatens

Word Origin & History

Old English þreatnian (see threat). Related: Threatened. Threatening in the sense of "portending no good" is recorded from 1520s.

He threatens with all the rigour of the law those who dare to give his wife an asylum.

God knows where I should be myself if the Governor were to do what he threatens.

He speaks to the demons; he threatens them, and puts them to silence.

It was on the matter of this very peril that threatens you that they came to me.

What a wonderful future have you opened to me if I escape the danger that threatens me now!

And of course—er—any danger that threatens me would—in a way—threaten her.

“It will be ill for the man who threatens us with any,” answered Pharaoh in Spanish.

It is a coward only who threatens one who is not present to defend himself!

But Armstrong is putting up a bluff and threatens to have it overhauled.

Nevertheless, I will save you, if it is in my power, from the danger that threatens you.'

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verb warn, pressure