Usually means: Express intention to cause harm.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word threaten:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. threaten: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. threaten: Merriam-Webster
  3. threaten: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. threaten: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. threaten: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Threaten, threaten: Wordnik
  7. threaten: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. threaten: Wiktionary
  9. threaten: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. threaten: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. threaten: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. threaten: Dictionary.com
  13. threaten: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Threaten: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. threaten: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. threaten: Rhymezone
  17. threaten: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. threaten: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. threaten: FreeDictionary.org
  20. threaten: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. threaten: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. threaten: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. threaten: Vocabulary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. threaten: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. threaten: Idioms

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  To make a threat against someone; to use threats.
▸ verb:  To menace, or be dangerous.
▸ verb:  To portend, or give a warning of.
▸ verb:  To call into question the validity of (a belief, idea, or viewpoint); to challenge.
▸ verb:  (figuratively) To be close to equaling or surpassing (a record, etc.)

Similar:
menace, imperil, peril, endanger, jeopardize, threat, terrorize, assault, shore, shake, more...

Opposite:
comfort, reassure, soothe, encourage, support

Types:
menace, intimidate, coerce, blackmail, extort, more...

Phrases:
to threaten, life threaten, acts to threaten free speech, threaten to do something bad unless, threaten to kill, more...

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Similar:
menace, imperil, peril, endanger, jeopardize, threat, terrorize, assault, shore, shake, more...

Opposite:
comfort, reassure, soothe, encourage, support

Types:
menace, intimidate, coerce, blackmail, extort, more...

Phrases:
to threaten, life threaten, acts to threaten free speech, threaten to do something bad unless, threaten to kill, threaten to, threaten the survival, more...

Colors:
    black,     red,     dark gray,     blood red,     charcoal, more...



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