Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who threatens; one who indulges in threats or menaces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who threatens.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
threatens .
Etymologies
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Examples
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My threatener is definitely what you think of when you think Peace Corps minus the giving the occasional threat part.
Archive 2008-01-01 The Wood To The Sand 2008
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My threatener is definitely what you think of when you think Peace Corps minus the giving the occasional threat part.
Peace Corps Bulgaria: Dedicated to another ND PCV The Wood To The Sand 2008
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Out of curiosity, I came back to look: Lundquist the tough guy threatener has been banned and his posts removed.
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That outburst---and her "nanny nanny boo boo, Barb's an alcoholic" tattle-taling after the disastrous school board meeting where she is exposed as a bottom-threatener---keep Nicki from being Wife of the Week, but her furious, flailing relinquishment of power stokes the drama in scene after scene.
Mark Blankenship: Big Love Wife Watch!: Season 5, Ep. 1 Mark Blankenship 2011
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That outburst---and her "nanny nanny boo boo, Barb's an alcoholic" tattle-taling after the disastrous school board meeting where she is exposed as a bottom-threatener---keep Nicki from being Wife of the Week, but her furious, flailing relinquishment of power stokes the drama in scene after scene.
Mark Blankenship: Big Love Wife Watch!: Season 5, Ep. 1 Mark Blankenship 2011
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Threat, without going to the dictionary, to me always implied an action that the threatener themself was going to perform.
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I think it is hilarious that the Pelosi threatener lives in subsidized housing ….
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Threat, without going to the dictionary, to me always implied an action that the threatener themself was going to perform.
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Further, to be credible I usually expect my threatener to give me something of a time frame and maybe some evidence of the means they will use to carry itout.
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Now in the trial of Franklin Duran (the only threatener who didn't take a plea), Hugo Chavez has, for the first time, been directly linked to the case:
A suitcase with legs 2008
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