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Menace

The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.

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Broader term 15

Acquit 76% connected

Acquitted; set free; rid of.

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Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Bear 76% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Behave 76% connected

To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.

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Carry 76% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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Comport 76% connected

To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.

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Conduct 76% connected

The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

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Danger 76% connected

Authority; jurisdiction; control.

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Deport 76% connected

To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.

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Evince 76% connected

To conquer; to subdue.

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Exist 76% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Express 76% connected

Exactly representing; exact.

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Show 76% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

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Threat 76% connected

The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denuncia…

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Derivationally related 4

Peril 74% connected

Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Peril 74% connected

Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.

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Threaten 74% connected

To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeab…

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Threaten 74% connected

To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeab…

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Synonym 6

Endanger 92% connected

To put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Imperil 92% connected

To bring into peril; to endanger.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Jeopardize 92% connected

To expose to loss or injury; to risk; to jeopard.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Peril 92% connected

Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Threat 92% connected

The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denuncia…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Threaten 92% connected

To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeab…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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