Usually means: Expresses intention to cause harm.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. threatens: Merriam-Webster
  2. threatens: Collins English Dictionary
  3. threatens: Vocabulary.com
  4. Threatens, threatens: Wordnik
  5. threatens: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. threatens: Wiktionary
  7. threatens: Dictionary.com
  8. threatens: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. threatens: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. threatens: Legal dictionary

(Note: See threaten as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (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.
verb:  To call into question the validity of (a belief, idea, or viewpoint); to challenge.
verb:  (figuratively) To be close to equaling or surpassing (a record, etc.)
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