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

Menace :: Menace (v. i.) To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.

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

Bravado :: Bravado (n.) Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.

Black :: Black (a.) Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks..

Ah :: Ah (interj.) An exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance..

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..

Minacious :: Minacious (a.) Threatening; menacing.

Overwhelm :: Overwhelm (v. t.) To project or impend over threateningly.

Parry :: Parry (v. t.) To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm..

Impending :: Impending (a.) Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening.

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

Threaten :: Threaten (v. t.) To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn..

Flank :: Flank (v. t.) To overlook or command the flank of; to secure or guard the flank of; to pass around or turn the flank of; to attack, or threaten to attack; the flank of..

Minatory :: Minatory (a.) Threatening; menacing.

Impend :: Impend (v. i.) To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten frome near at hand; to menace; to be imminent. See Imminent.

Lowering :: Lowering (a.) Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky..

Penal :: Penal (a.) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code..

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

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..

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