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| Main Entry: | threaten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | warn, pressure |
| Synonyms: | abuse, admonish, augur, blackmail, bluster, browbeat, bully, caution, cow, enforce, forebode, forewarn, fulminate, growl, intimidate, menace, portend, presage, scare, scowl, snarl, spook, terrorize, torment, comminate, flex muscles, look daggers, make threat, pressurize, push around, shake fist at, walk heavy |
| Antonyms: | alleviate, help, protect, relieve |
| Main Entry: | threaten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | endanger |
| Synonyms: | advance, approach, come on, forebode, foreshadow, frighten, imperil, jeopardize, loom, overhang, portend, presage, warn, be dangerous, be gathering, be imminent, be in the air, be in the offing, be on the horizon, brewing, hang over*, impend, put at risk, put in jeopardy |
| Antonyms: | guard, protect, save |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | approach |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come nearer |
| Synonyms: | advance, approximate, bear, border, buzz*, come, come at, contact, converge, equal, match, meet, near, progress, reach, resemble, surround, take after, threaten, be comparable to, be like, belly up to, catch up, close in, come close, compare with, correspond to, creep up, draw near, gain on, go toward, impend, loom up, move in on, move toward, verge upon |
| Antonyms: | depart, distance, leave, go away |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blackmail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | intimidating for money |
| Synonyms: | badger, bleed, coerce, compel, demand, exact, extort, force, milk*, ransom, shake*, squeeze*, threaten, hold to ransom, put the shake on, shake down* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | brandish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flaunt, swing around |
| Synonyms: | display, disport, exhibit, expose, flash, gesture, parade, raise, shake, show, show off, sport, swing, threaten, trot out*, warn, wield, come on strong, throw weight around |
| Antonyms: | not show |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | browbeat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | castigate, nag |
| Synonyms: | badger, bludgeon, bluster, bulldoze*, bully, coerce, cow, domineer, frighten, harass, hector, intimidate, oppress, threaten, tyrannize, despotize, dragoon, lean on, lord it over, overawe, overbear, put heat on, put the chill on, put through the wringer |
| Antonyms: | boost, coax, compliment, praise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bully |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | intimidate, push around |
| Synonyms: | bludgeon, bluster, browbeat, bulldoze, coerce, cow, domineer, enforce, harass, hector, menace, oppress, persecute, swagger, terrorize, threaten, torment, torture, tyrannize, buffalo, despotize, dragoon, lean on, overbear, ride roughshod, showboat, turn on the heat, walk heavy |
| Antonyms: | allow, leave alone |
| Main Entry: | coerce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | compel, press |
| Synonyms: | beset, browbeat, bulldoze*, bully, concuss, constrain, cow, dragoon, drive, force, high pressure, hinder, impel, intimidate, lean on, make, make an offer they can't refuse, menace, oblige, pressurize, push, put the squeeze on, repress, restrict, shotgun, strong-arm, suppress, terrorize, threaten, twist one's arm, urge |
| Antonyms: | leave alone |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | challenge, defy someone |
| Synonyms: | beard, brave, bully, call one's bluff, confront, cope, denounce, disregard, face, face off, front, goad, insult, knock chip off shoulder, laugh at, make my day, meet, mock, muster courage, oppose, outdare, provoke, resist, run the gauntlet, scorn, spurn, square off, step over the line, take one on, taunt, threaten, throw down gauntlet |
| Main Entry: | denounce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | condemn, attack |
| Synonyms: | accuse, adjudicate, arraign, blacklist, blame, boycott, brand, castigate, censure, charge, criticize, damn, declaim, decry, derogate, dress down, excoriate, expose, finger*, impeach, implicate, impugn, incriminate, indict, knock, ostracize, proscribe, prosecute, rap, rat*, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprobate, reprove, revile, scold, show up, skin*, smear, stigmatize, threaten, upbraid, vilify, vituperate, charge with, denunciate, hang something on, inveigh against, take to task |
| Antonyms: | approve, commend, compliment, praise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | domineer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | oppress; assume authority |
| Synonyms: | be in the saddle, bend, bluster, boss around*, browbeat, bulldoze*, bully*, call the shots*, dominate, hector, henpeck*, in the driver's seat, intimidate, keep under thumb, kick around*, lead by the nose, menace, overbear, predominate, preponderate, prevail, push the buttons, reign, rule, rule the roost*, run the show, run things, swagger, threaten, throw weight around, tyrannize |
| Antonyms: | follow, submit, surrender, yield |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | endanger |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put in jeopardy |
| Synonyms: | be careless, chance, chance it, expose, hazard, imperil, lay on the line, lay open*, leave defenseless, leave in the middle, make liable, menace, peril, play into one's hands, put at risk, put in danger, put on the spot, risk, stick one's neck out, subject to loss, threaten, venture |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, comfort, help, save, take care |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jeopardize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | endanger |
| Synonyms: | chance, gamble, hazard, imperil, peril, risk, stake, subject to, tempt fate, threaten, be careless, chance it, lay on the line, put at risk, put in danger, put in jeopardy |
| Main Entry: | loom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | appear, often imposingly |
| Synonyms: | approach, await, brew, bulk, come on, dawn, dominate, emanate, emerge, figure, gather, hover, impress, issue, lower, make up, menace, mount, near, overhang, overshadow, portend, rear, rise, show, soar, stand out, threaten, top, tower, be at hand, be coming, be forthcoming, be imminent, be in the cards, be in the wind, be near, become visible, break through, come forth, come into view, come on the scene, hang over, impend, overtop, seem huge, seem large, take shape |
| Main Entry: | menace |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bother, frighten |
| Synonyms: | alarm, browbeat, bully, chill, compromise, endanger, hazard, imperil, intimidate, jeopardize, loom, lower, overhang, peril, portend, risk, scare, spook, terrorize, threaten, torment, bad-eye, impend, lean on, push around, put heat on, scare hell out of, whip around |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, help |
| Main Entry: | overhang |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bulge, hang over |
| Synonyms: | command, endanger, extend, jut, loom, menace, poke, portend, pouch, project, protrude, stand out, stick out, threaten, be imminent, be suspended, beetle, cast a shadow, dangle over, droop over, flap over, impend, overtop, rise above, swing over, tower above |
| Main Entry: | portend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | foreshadow, indicate |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, augur, bespeak, betoken, bode, call*, forebode, forecast, foretell, forewarn, harbinger, herald, hint, omen, predict, presage, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, read, threaten, be in the cards, crystal-ball, foreshow, foretoken, have a hunch, point to, premonish, see coming, warn of |
| Notes: | portend means to indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future or to foreshadow or to bode; pretend means to make believe with the intent to deceive or to give a false appearance of |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | snarl |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grumble |
| Synonyms: | abuse, bark, bluster, bully, complain, fulminate, growl, mumble, murmur, mutter, quarrel, snap, threaten, thunder, yelp, gnarl, gnash teeth, show teeth |
| Antonyms: | laugh |
| Main Entry: | thunder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | yell at |
| Synonyms: | bark, bellow, curse, declaim, denounce, fulminate, growl, rail, roar, shout, snarl, threaten, gnarl, 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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