threatening
/ˈθɹɛtə.nɪŋ/ sustantivo C2- An act of threatening; a threat.
Plural threatenings
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A Fox passing by asked him why he thus sharpened his teeth when there was no danger threatening from either huntsman or hound.
The house had been untenanted for some years and was threatening to moulder into a picturesque decay when the Douglases took possession of it.
The man he sacrificed to his ambition, that innocent victim immolated on the altar of his father’s faults, appeared to him pale and threatening, leading his affianced bride by the hand, and bringing with him remorse, not such as the ancients figured, furious and terrible, but that slow and consuming agony whose pangs are intensified from hour to hour up to the very moment of death.
The Count scowled, with heavy, threatening eyebrows.
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