0 to tell someone that you will kill or hurt them, or cause problems for them if they do not do what you want -- korkutmak, gözdağı vermek, tehdit etmek
1 to be likely to cause harm or damage to something or someone -- tehlikeye sokmak, tehdit etmek, tehdit unsuru oluşturmak
2 If something bad threatens to happen, it is likely to happen. -- tehlikeli olmak; tehdit oluşturmak; tehditi altında kalmak
[ + to do sth ] The conflict threatened to spread to neighbouring countries.
The restriction imposed by the statute here threatens severe impairment of the judicial function.
Marcus in his speech uses rhetorical means to release emotion that the initial shocking sight threatened to freeze.
After 1921, even this minimum standard was threatened when the government responded to employers' complaints by cutting back on the number of new trade boards.
At times, legal services workers have been threatened with charges of trespass.
Anything that threatened this balance was anathema to him.
Though the protagonist is clearly deserving of punishment, the capricious, almost arbitrary manner of the punishment threatens to eclipse his crimes.
When she 'heard' her thoughts, she was frightened, felt out of control and her idyllic child-like environment threatened.
He had benefited only recently from their influence when his position as abbot was threatened.
