Threaten is valid Scrabble Word

Is threaten a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is threaten valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for THREATEN in dictionary:

VERB:

to intimidate, also THREAT
cause (someone or something) to be vulnerable or at risk; endanger
seem likely to produce an unpleasant or unwelcome result
(of something undesirable) seem likely to occur
make or be a threat to
To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn.
To exhibit the appearance of (something evil or unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death.
To use threats, or menaces; also, to have a threatening appearance.
pose a threat to; present a danger to
to utter intentions of injury or punishment against:

to be a menacing indication of something:
state one's intention to take hostile action against (someone) in retribution for something done or not done
state one's intention to do (something undesirable) in retribution

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to be a source of danger to

Words related to THREATEN

threatened14 threatener13 threateners14 threatening15 threateningly20 threatens12

Words that contain THREATEN

threatens12 threatened14 threatener13 threateners14 threatening15 threatenings16 unthreatened16 threateningly20 unthreatening17 nonthreatening18 unthreateningly22

How to use THREATEN in a sentence

The very guards who surrounded them are the persons who threaten them most.
Denis, visible from his former residence, seemed to threaten him.
They may be inconvenient or distasteful to some of us, but no one need be seriously disturbed by the idea that they threaten our system of government.
It was he whom we saw, armed with a carbine, threaten to fire on the barge of the governor, when it began to move from the frigate.
Volagases himself proceeded as far as Nisibis, whence he could threaten at the same time Armenia and Syria.
The differences between the King and parliaments threaten a serious issue.
As the idol of fighting men, McClellan had ceased to threaten the supremacy of the civil law.
Lee, whose front has never been broken, holds Grant in check and has men enough to spare to invade Maryland and Pennsylvania and threaten Washington.
THE OBVIOUS DANGERS The dangers that threaten democracy are obvious.
The character of the soil and the unceasing influence of the stream at the bottom, seemed to threaten further slips of the land from the summit.

If the plague or any epidemic disease threaten a village or town, the disorder will be stayed by a live toad being suspended for three or four days in a chimney.
An insurrection had been raised in the Low Countries by the inhabitants of Ghent, and seemed to threaten the most dangerous consequences.
Remember that so long as you are reasonable I do not threaten you.
The father had to threaten the bridegroom with his pistol, and the bride had to throw herself between the two men.
Indeed, he had given her his word that he would conceal from her no danger, however great, that might threaten them when he had once assured himself of its existence.
In the times before us that promise or threaten deep political, economical, and social controversy, what we need to do is to induce our people to weigh and consider.
The stir around them, the perils which seemed to threaten, were a call to them to examine afresh the meaning of their familiar words and professions.
It almost becomes necessary to threaten these poor people with a stick, as they obstinately refuse to take a gentler hint.
Yet though recognition and war were avoided they never entirely ceased to threaten, and Mr.
If the prisoner continues obstinate, as he hath hitherto shown himself, threaten him with the torture.
If Kaintock is permitted to grow she will threaten Louisiana.
Such appetites as you boys are developing threaten to eat us out of house and home soon, unless we eke out with game.
Several lawyers threaten to be on hand and force me to the wall on legal points, but we shall see.
Not until then did Reynolds remember another life that be had dared to threaten, that even now he meant to take if the wheel of chance swung against him.

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