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threaten
verb as in warn, pressure
verb as in endanger
Example Sentences
He said the case highlighted “the scale of injustice that the Tory Legacy Act threatened to inflict on families across our society”.
During his teens he was chased with knives and threatened by having his hand hit with a hammer.
A report this week found that 44% of corals living in warm waters are threatened with extinction, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Filion has also pleaded guilty to making three other threatening calls, according to the Department of Justice.
MSF said staff were "violently attacked, insulted, tear-gassed, threatened with death" and held hostage for more than four hours before being released.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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