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Words related to threaten
threat·en
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impend
to be imminent; be about to happen. -
apoplectic
If someone is apoplectic, they are extremely angry about something. -
comminate
to anathematize -
commination
the act or an instance of threatening punishment or vengeance -
demean
If you demean yourself, you do something which makes people have less respect for you. -
each other
Although some insist that each other be used only in reference to two (The two candidates respected each other) and one another in reference to three or more (The three nations threaten one another), in standard practice they are interchangeable. Each other is not restricted to two, nor is one another restricted to three or more. The possessive of each other is each other's; the possessive of one another is one another's.