Definition of Threatens

1. Verb. (third-person singular of threaten) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Threatens

1. threaten [v] - See also: threaten

Lexicographical Neighbors of Threatens

threaping
threapit
threaps
threaric acid
threat
threated
threaten
threatened
threatened species
threatener
threateners
threatening
threateningly
threatenings
threatens
threatest
threatful
threatfully
threating
threatning
threats
threatscape
threatscapes
threave
threaves
three
three-D
three-bagger
three-banded armadillo

Literary usage of Threatens

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1900)
"SITUATION OF THE BLACK POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES, AND DANGERS WITH WHICH ITS PRESENCE Threatens THE WHITES Why it is more difficult to abolish slavery ..."

2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve, John Canfield Spencer (1848)
"... AND DAN- OERS WITH WHICH ITS PRESENCE Threatens THE WHITES. Why it is more difficult to abolish Slavery, and to efface all Vestiges of it among the ..."

3. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve, John Canfield Spencer (1841)
"SITUATION OF THE BLACK POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES, AND DAN- GEKS WITH WHICH ITS PRESENCE Threatens THE WHITES. Why it is more difficult to abolish ..."

4. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1864)
"SITUATION OF THE BLACK POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES, AND DANGERS WITH WHICH ITS PRESENCE Threatens THE WHITES. Why it is more difficult to ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1880)
"The fierceness of his temper was exasperated by cruel superstition ; and and threatens ^ was universally believed that he had bound him- Bome. seif by a ..."

6. The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution by David Hume, Tobias George Smollett (1825)
"... these scruples — Anne Boleyn — Henry applies to the pope for a divorce — The pope favourable — The emperor threatens him — The pope's ambiguous conduct ..."

7. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution by David Hume (1789)
"... Anne Boleyn • Henry applies to the pope for a divorce The pope -favourable—Vbe emperor threatens him The pope's ambiguous ..."

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