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threatens - 20 thesaurus results
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
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
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*
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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