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Commination :: Commination (n.) A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.

Evil :: Evil (a.) Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days..

Denounce :: Denounce (v. t.) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression.

Threatening :: Threatening () a. & n. from Threaten, v..

Alert :: Alert (n.) An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning..

Alarm :: Alarm (v. t.) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.

Blackly :: Blackly (adv.) In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously..

Imminent :: Imminent (a.) Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril.

Denunciator :: Denunciator (n.) One who denounces, publishes, or proclaims, especially intended or coming evil; one who threatens or accuses..

Assault :: Assault (n.) An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery..

Menacingly :: Menacingly (adv.) In a threatening manner.

Blackmail :: Blackmail (v. t.) To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud..

Threaten :: Threaten (v. t.) To exhibit the appearance of (something evil or unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death..

Imminent :: Imminent (a.) Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous.

Totter :: Totter (v. i.) To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age..

Lower :: Lower (v. i.) To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest..

Threat :: Threat (n.) The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation..

Frown :: Frown (v. i.) To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness..

Offer :: Offer (v. t.) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten; as, to offer violence, attack, etc..

Black :: Black (adv.) Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.

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