Definitions for threatening

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threatening threat·en·ing

Spelling: [thret-n-ing]

IPA: /ˈθrɛt n ɪŋ/

Threatening is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 653 anagrams from letters in threatening (aeeghinnrtt).

Definitions for threatening

adjective

1. tending or intended to menace:
2. causing alarm, as by being imminent; ominous; sinister:

verb (used with object)

1. to utter a threat against; menace:
2. to be a menace or source of danger to:
3. to offer (a punishment, injury, etc.) by way of a threat:
4. to give an ominous indication of:

verb (used without object)

1. to utter or use threats.
2. to indicate impending evil or mischief.

Origin of threatening

First recorded in 1520-30; threaten + -ing²

Examples for threatening

Neither is unnerved by her apparent anger, nor do they see her as threatening.

But it settled down again, black and threatening, before spring came.

Israel commonly holds people suspected of threatening national security for long periods without access to legal counsel.

And so the report came to me that the workers were threatening strike.

Now hackers are threatening to bomb any theater that shows it.

But the sunlight is threatening to fade and a three-and-a-half-hour river journey back to Kisangani looms.

The political controversy, however fierce and threatening, is only for power.

The official's voice was charged with threatening as he went on.

His first feature film, Jellyfish Eyes, debuted last year and was set in a town near a threatening nuclear power plant.

It was some moments before, under the girl's threatening eyes, she could speak at all.