threatening

US /ˈθret.ən.ɪŋ/

UK /ˈθret.ən.ɪŋ/

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having a hostile or deliberately frightening quality or manner.

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her mother had received a threatening letter

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menacing intimidating bullying frightening terrifying scary fearsome mean-looking alarming forbidding baleful warning admonitory cautionary minacious minatory comminatory

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threatened threaten life-threatening