Word: Threat
How to pronounce: θret
Noun
Definitions:
1. A statement of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage, or other hostile action on someone in retribution for something done or not done.
Example sentences: "Members of her family have received death threats"
2. A person or thing likely to cause damage or danger.
Example sentences: "Hurricane damage poses a major threat to many coastal communities"
Synonyms:
risk
menace
endangerment
danger
jeopardy
hazard
pitfall
peril
imminence
challenge
trouble
scourge
intimidation
terror
menacing
Antonyms:
security
protection
Derivations:
threatening
threatened
threaten
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Threat in Other Languages...
Spanish: Amenaza
German: Bedrohung
French: Menace
Italian: Minaccia
Turkish: Tehdit
