Vocabulary

Form

to threaten; to menace; to frighten (into doing)

verb vt
N1 freq #21

Example sentences

He browbeat her into accepting it.

He threatened to make it public.

Someone made a threat to kill that politician.

I scared him out of cheating on the exam.

A strange man menaced her with a knife.

The police threatened to send her to jail.

I had to resort to threats to get my money back.

She threatened to set our house on fire.