threatener
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5.8
- noun
- /ˈθrɛtənər/
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amenazador
- Whereas in the past, when protesters by the dozen threatened Bush, the media turned a blind eye, and the threateners got off scot-free.
Examples
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However, all these instances of Bush-threateners being arrested happened outside of a protest setting.
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Otherwise, threateners would just play various word games to get out of being charged under the United States Code.
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I knew three facts about the threatener:
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In fact, the Obama 'threatener' was not arrested.
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Shakespeare also devised great cursers and threateners.
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If you have any links to solid examples of Obama threateners at protests getting away with it with no Secret Service questioning and no media publicity about their threats, please post them here.
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But I was raised by spankers (and shouters, and threateners), and I do feel the impulse.
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Yet for reasons that are not entirely clear, none of those Bush-threateners at protests was ever arrested, questioned, or investigated (at least as far as I could tell).
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You lost any journalistic integrity with the following passage: "Yet for reasons that are not entirely clear, none of those Bush-threateners at protests was ever arrested, questioned, or investigated (at least as far as I could tell)."
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The police took the threatener's warnings seriously after several incidents of intimidation.
Synonyms
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6.3
A person who repeatedly bothers, threatens, or scares others
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7.5
A person who scares or threatens others to make them do what they want
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9.9
A person who uses threats or force to control people for a political group
Antonyms
How Intimidating
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Threatener comes from the verb threaten, which means 'to say you will harm or scare someone'. The ending -er means 'a person who does something', so a threatener is a person who makes threats or tries to intimidate others.