Another Word For THREAT

menace

Noun : A perceived threat or danger.

Noun : The act of threatening.

Noun : (informal) An annoying and bothersome person or thing.

terror

Noun : (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.

Noun : (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.

Noun : (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.

scourge

Noun : A source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction.

Noun : A means to inflict such pain or destruction.

Noun : A whip, often of leather and often multi-tailed.

menacing

Adjective : Synonym of threatening in its various senses.

Noun : The act of making menaces or threats.

threaten

Verb : To make a threat against someone; to use threats.

Verb : To menace, or be dangerous.

Verb : To portend, or give a warning of.

threatening

Adjective : Presenting a threat, posing a likely risk of harm.

Adjective : Making threats, making statements about a willingness to cause harm.

Noun : An act of threatening; a threat.

trouble

Noun : A distressing or dangerous situation.

Noun : A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.

Noun : A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.

intimidation

Noun : The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated.

intimidate

Verb : (transitive) To make timid or afraid; to cause to feel fear or nervousness; to deter, especially by threats of violence

distress

Noun : Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.

Noun : A cause of such discomfort.

Noun : Serious danger.

fear

Noun : (uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.

Noun : (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.

Noun : (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.

problem

Noun : A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.

Noun : A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise.

Noun : A puzzling circumstance.

dangerous

Adjective : Full of danger.

Adjective : Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.

Adjective : (colloquial, dated) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.

peril

Noun : A situation of serious and immediate danger.

Noun : Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.

Noun : (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.

endangering

Noun : The act of putting someone or something in danger.

danger

Noun : Exposure to likely harm; peril.

Noun : An instance or cause of likely harm.

Noun : (obsolete) Mischief.

jeopardize

Verb : (US) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.

hazardous

Adjective : Risky; dangerous; with the nature of a hazard.

Adjective : Of or involving chance.

endanger

Verb : (transitive) To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To incur the hazard of; to risk; to run the risk of.

hazard

Noun : The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.

Noun : An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.

Noun : (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.

endangerment

Noun : The act of putting someone into danger, or the condition of being in danger.

Noun : (law) The exposure of someone, especially a child, to danger or harm.

harm

Noun : Physical injury; hurt; damage.

Noun : Emotional or figurative hurt.

Noun : Detriment; misfortune.

enemy

Noun : Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.

Noun : A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.

Noun : Something harmful or threatening to another

risk

Noun : (uncountable) The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.

Noun : (uncountable) The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event.

Noun : (uncountable, economics, business and engineering) The potential negative effect of an event, determined by multiplying the likelihood of the event occurring with its magnitude should it occur.

obstacle

Noun : Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress, either physically or figuratively

deterrence

Noun : The act of deterring, or the state of being deterred.

Noun : Action taken by states or alliances of nations against equally powerful alliances to prevent hostile action.

Noun : The art of producing in one's enemy the fear of attacking.

deterrent

Noun : Something that deters.

venture

Noun : A risky or daring undertaking or journey.

Noun : An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen.

Noun : The thing risked; especially, something sent to sea in trade.

challenge

Noun : A confrontation; a dare.

Noun : An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.

Noun : A bid to overcome something.

attack

Noun : An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.

Noun : An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.

Noun : A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.

concern

Noun : That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.

Noun : The placement of interest or worry on a subject.

Noun : A worry; a sense that something may be wrong; an identification of a possible problem.

duress

Noun : (obsolete) Harsh treatment.

Noun : Constraint by threat.

Noun : (law) Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats.

pressure

Noun : A pressing; a force applied to a surface.

Noun : A contrasting force or impulse of any kind

Noun : Distress.

alert

Noun : An alarm.

Noun : A notification of higher importance than an advisory.

Noun : (military) A state of readiness for potential combat.

apprehension

Noun : (rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing.

Noun : (law) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.

Noun : Perception; the act of understanding using one's intellect without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment

crisis

Noun : A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.

Noun : An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.

Noun : (medicine) A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.

warning

Noun : The action of the verb warn; an instance of warning someone.

Noun : Something spoken or written that is intended to warn.

Noun : A surname.

likelihood

Noun : The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state or degree of being probable.

Noun : (statistics, probability theory) The probability that some fixed outcome was generated by a random distribution with a specific parameter.

Noun : Likeness, resemblance.

possibility

Noun : The quality of being possible.

Noun : A thing possible; that which may take place or come into being.

Noun : An option or choice, usually used in context with future events.

potential

Noun : A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).

Noun : (physics) The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.

Noun : (physics) The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified location in the presence of a force field, for example to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.

prospect

Noun : The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.

Noun : A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.

Noun : A position affording a fine view; a lookout.

ultimatum

Noun : (diplomacy) A final statement of terms or conditions made by one party to another, especially one that expresses a threat of reprisal or war if the terms are not met before some specified date and time.

Noun : (diplomacy, dated) An intended final statement of terms or conditions made by one party to another in a negotiation.

overhang

Noun : (economics) The volume that tips the balance between the demand and the supply toward demand lagging supply.

Noun : (architecture) That portion of the roof structure that extends beyond the exterior walls of a building.

Noun : A fatty roll of pubis flab that hangs over one's genitals; a FUPA.

ominous

Adjective : Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.

Adjective : Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen

spectre

Noun : Britain standard spelling of specter.

hot

Noun : (electronics) Acronym of hybrid-orientation technology. (CMOS fabrication technology that uses PMOS and NMOS substrates with differing orientations)

Noun : (electronics) Acronym of hybrid-orientation technique. (a technique that applies the technology)

Noun : (automotive) Acronym of high-output turbo. (turbocharger)

stake

Noun : A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.

Noun : (croquet) A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.

Noun : A stick or similar object (e.g., steel channel or angle stock) inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off; often connected in a grid forming a stakebody.

shadow

Noun : A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.

Noun : Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom; obscurity.

Noun : An area protected by an obstacle (likened to an object blocking out sunlight).

thread

Noun : A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string.

Noun : A continued theme or idea.

Noun : (engineering) A screw thread.

hazards

Noun : (automotive) Ellipsis of hazard lights.

jeopardy

Noun : Jeopardy!, a popular US television game show in which contestants answer clues by responding in the form of a question, hosted originally by Art Fleming and most notably by Alex Trebek.

Noun : Danger of failure, harm, or loss.

jeopardise

Verb : Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of jeopardize. [(US) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.]

spectrum

Noun : A range; a continuous, infinite, one-dimensional set, possibly bounded by extremes.

Noun : Specifically, a range of colours representing light (electromagnetic radiation) of contiguous frequencies; hence electromagnetic spectrum, visible spectrum, ultraviolet spectrum, etc.

Noun : (psychology, education, usually with the) The autism spectrum.

threatened

Adjective : (ecology, of a plant or animal) At risk of becoming endangered in the near future.

Adjective : Feeling insecure or vulnerable.

endangered

Adjective : in danger, at risk, said of something where there is a strong possibility something bad will happen to it (for example, a species in danger of going extinct)

counterclaims

Noun : (law) A suit filed by a defendant against a plaintiff secondary to the original complaint.

dangers

Noun : Exposure to likely harm; peril.

Noun : An instance or cause of likely harm.

Noun : (obsolete) Mischief.

jeopardized

Verb : (US) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.

menaces

Noun : A perceived threat or danger.

Noun : The act of threatening.

Noun : (informal) An annoying and bothersome person or thing.

risks

Noun : (uncountable) The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.

Noun : (uncountable) The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event.

Noun : (uncountable, economics, business and engineering) The potential negative effect of an event, determined by multiplying the likelihood of the event occurring with its magnitude should it occur.

threatens

Verb : To make a threat against someone; to use threats.

Verb : To menace, or be dangerous.

Verb : To portend, or give a warning of.

threatener

Noun : One who threatens.

imminent

Adjective : About to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long.

nuisance

Noun : A minor annoyance or inconvenience.

Noun : A person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience.

Noun : (law) Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists.

pose

Verb : (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.

Verb : (transitive) To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).

Verb : (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).

disruption

Noun : An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.

Noun : A continuing act of disorder.

Noun : A breaking or bursting apart; a breach.

imminence

Noun : The state or condition of being about to happen; imminent quality.

impending

Adjective : Approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen.

repercussion

Noun : A consequence or ensuing result of some action.

Noun : The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation.

Noun : (music) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.

intrusion

Noun : The forcible inclusion or entry of an external group or individual; the act of intruding.

Noun : (geology) Magma forced into other rock formations; the rock formed when such magma solidifies.

Noun : A structure that lies within a historic district but is nonhistoric and irrelevant to the district.

impediment

Noun : A hindrance; that which impedes or obstructs progress.

Noun : A disability, especially one affecting the hearing or speech.

Noun : (chiefly in the plural) Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta.

encroachment

Noun : An entry into a place or area that was previously uncommon; an advance beyond former borders; intrusion; incursion.

Noun : An intrusion upon another's possessions or rights; infringement.

Noun : That which is gained by such unlawful intrusion.

retaliation

Noun : Violent or otherwise punitive response to an act of harm or perceived injustice; a hitting back; revenge.

reprisal

Noun : An act of retaliation.

Noun : (archaic) Something taken from an enemy in retaliation.

Noun : (archaic) The act of taking something from an enemy by way of retaliation or indemnity.

impact

Noun : The striking of one body against another; collision.

Noun : The force or energy of a collision of two objects.

Noun : (chiefly medicine) A forced impinging.

reprisals

Noun : An act of retaliation.

Noun : (archaic) Something taken from an enemy in retaliation.

Noun : (archaic) The act of taking something from an enemy by way of retaliation or indemnity.

incursion

Noun : An aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion.

encroaching

Adjective : That encroaches.

affront

Noun : An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.

Noun : (obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.

dange

looming

Noun : a term found in the study of perception, as it relates directly to psychology.

Noun : (English: Creation) the oldest literary magazine in Estonia.

protection

Noun : The process of keeping (something or someone) safe.

Noun : The state of being safe.

Noun : A means of keeping or remaining safe.

repercussions

Noun : A consequence or ensuing result of some action.

Noun : The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation.

Noun : (music) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.

fearsome

Adjective : frightening, especially in appearance.

Adjective : (rare or archaic) fearful, frightened

deadly

Adjective : (obsolete, rare) Subject to death; mortal.

Adjective : Causing death; lethal.

Adjective : Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.

catastrophe

Noun : Any large and disastrous event of great significance.

Noun : (insurance) A disaster beyond expectations.

Noun : (narratology) The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot; the dénouement.

implication

Noun : (uncountable) The act of implicating.

Noun : (uncountable) The state of being implicated.

Noun : (countable) A possible effect or result of a decision or action.

security

Noun : (uncountable) The condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally, or financially.

Noun : (countable) Something that secures.

Noun : An organization or department responsible for providing security by enforcing laws, rules, and regulations as well as maintaining order.

legitimate

Adjective : In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements.

Adjective : Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.

Adjective : Authentic, real, genuine.

scare

Noun : A minor fright.

Noun : A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread.

Noun : A device or object used to frighten.

assault

Noun : A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.

Noun : A violent verbal attack, for example with insults, criticism, and the like

Noun : (criminal law) An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence, to do hurt to another, but without necessarily touching the person, such as by raising a fist in a threatening manner, or by striking at the person and missing.

opposition

Noun : The action of opposing or of being in conflict.

Noun : An opposite or contrasting position.

Noun : (astronomy) The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees from the other as seen from the Earth.

blackmail

Noun : The extortion of money or favours by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.

Noun : (archaic) A form of protection money (or corn, cattle, etc.) anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to the allies of robbers in order to be spared from pillage.

Noun : (England law, historical) Black rent, or rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin, as opposed to white rent, which was paid in silver.

vulnerability

Noun : (uncountable) The state of being vulnerable; susceptibility to attack or injury, either physical or emotional; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.

Noun : (countable) A specific weakness in the protections or defences surrounding someone or something.

Noun : (computing) A weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's security.

terrorism

Noun : (historical) The system of fear and intimidation put into place during the Reign of Terror in Revolutionary France around 1793-94.

Noun : The use of unlawful violence against people or property to achieve political objectives.

Noun : (by extension) The use of intimidation or bullying tactics.

deadliness

Noun : Synonym of lethality

Noun : The quality of being deadly.

Noun : The degree to which a thing is deadly.

poses

Noun : (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.

Noun : Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).

Noun : Affectation.

disturbance

Noun : The act of disturbing, being disturbed.

Noun : Something that disturbs.

Noun : A noisy commotion that causes a hubbub or interruption.

backlash

Noun : (literal) A suddenly reversed or backward motion, such as of a rope or elastic band when it snaps under tension.

Noun : (figurative) A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.

Noun : (mechanics) The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, such as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).

onslaught

Noun : A fierce attack.

Noun : (by extension) A large number of people or things resembling an attack.

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