Threatening is valid Scrabble Word

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

11 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for THREATENING in dictionary:

VERB:

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
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

NOUN:

the act of threatening

ADJECTIVE:

ominous
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
darkened by clouds

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to be a source of danger to

a. & n. from Threaten, v.

Words related to THREATENING

minacious13 threaten11 threatened14 threateningly20 threatenings16 threatens12

Words that contain THREATENING

threatenings16 threateningly20 unthreatening17 nonthreatening18 unthreateningly22

How to use THREATENING in a sentence

Yet it would appear that these various bulls threatening an interdict did not receive a welcome from any quarter.
War came threatening, amidst my dream of tenderness.
His ferocity disappeared, however, when he saw the ball coming at a frightful speed straight at him, and threatening to take a large scoop out of his stomach.
And each day Simpkins, who now assumed a threatening and fearsome demeanor toward Mrs.
At length things became so threatening that I decided to sink a well.
First he made me endure him because he was going to help us, and from the moment the robbery was done, he has been threatening to tell.
Slowly the huge thing came in, scraping the nicely polished floor, rolling a little from side to side, and threatening all those within a yard of it.
He was well aware of the position of Constantius in the West, of the internal corruption of his court, and of the perils constantly threatening him from external enemies.
At the same time the French partisans in Genoa became very threatening.
So it happened that all three countries sent battleships to the Samoan waters, threatening a crisis that was fortunately averted by friendly settlement.

The rain had stopped, though the sky was still cloudy and threatening.
I felt sure now that some imminent danger was threatening Jacqueline.
But the queen wished to keep her, and tried by all means to do so, by pleading with her and by threatening to detain her by force.
And suddenly the song of the scouts and those who had joined them was drowned out by a new noise, sinister, threatening.
Yet fever was threatening, and on the 22d of December, ten days after his return, he became decidedly ill.
These false reports, which represented me as invoking war and threatening devastation of the North, have since been adopted by partisan writers as authentic history.
Miss Peggy bade her guest a very good night, and, threatening to catch him for a Christmas gift next morning, disappeared up the stairs and locked the door after her.
The presence of an enemy ever lurking within a league of their gates, ever threatening them by night and by day, had shaken their nerves.
It disposed satisfactorily and fairly of all the minor questions which were vexatious and threatening to the peaceful relation of the two countries.
The onlookers seized similar weapons and defended themselves, or drove the spirit away by threatening him with a small dog.
At once begin a new life, if you would shun the dangers and avoid the terrible doom threatening you.
An insolent, threatening gesture was the only answer.
This plan did not succeed, however, because the Moorish kings whom he had captured and released gave him a timely warning of the threatening danger.
He protested with vehemence, threatening to rebel outright, but Anne was determined, and eventually she had her way.
He promised to come twice a week, left directions for the treatment with Monsieur Deslandes, and pointed out the threatening symptoms that might oblige us to send for him.
Embassy followed embassy from England, each using language more threatening than its predecessor.

Similar words containing THREATEN without suffix ing

threaten11 threatens12 threatened14 threatener13 threateners14 threatenings16 unthreatened16 threateningly20 unthreatening17 nonthreatening18 unthreateningly22

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