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The Secret Service once watched for people who fit the popular profile of dangerousness: the lunatic, the loner, the threatener, the hater.
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Meaning of "threatener" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THREATENER

threatener  [ˈθrɛtənə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF THREATENER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Threatener is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES THREATENER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of threatener in the English dictionary

The definition of threatener in the dictionary is someone who threatens.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH THREATENER


battener
ˈbætənə
brightener
ˈbraɪtənə
buttoner
ˈbʌtənə
Easterner
ˈiːstənə
Ecbatana
ɛkˈbætənə
enlightener
ɪnˈlaɪtənə
fattener
ˈfætənə
frightener
ˈfraɪtənə
heartener
ˈhɑːtənə
kindergartener
ˈkɪndəˌɡɑːtənə
lightener
ˈlaɪtənə
Midwesterner
ˈmɪdˈwɛstənə
quietener
ˈkwaɪətənə
shortener
ˈʃɔːtənə
straightener
ˈstreɪtənə
sweetener
ˈswiːtənə
tightener
ˈtaɪtənə
wantoner
ˈwɒntənə
westerner
ˈwɛstənə
whitener
ˈwaɪtənə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THREATENER

threadfin
threadier
threadiest
threadiness
threadless
threadlike
threadmaker
Threadneedle Street
threads
threadworm
thready
threap
threaper
threat
threaten
threatened
threatening
threatening behaviour
threateningly
threatful

WORDS THAT END LIKE THREATENER

bottle-opener
chastener
christener
coffee whitener
dome fastener
fastener
flattener
hastener
listener
moistener
optical brightener
paper fastener
patent fastener
rattener
slide fastener
snap fastener
softener
Velcro fastener
water softener
zip fastener

Synonyms and antonyms of threatener in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «threatener» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THREATENER

Find out the translation of threatener to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of threatener from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «threatener» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

threatener
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

amenazador
570 millions of speakers

English

threatener
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

threatener
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

threatener
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

threatener
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ameaçador
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

threatener
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

auteur des menaces
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penghibur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

threatener
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

脅迫者
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

threatener
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ancaman
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

threatener
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

threatener
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

धमकावणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

threatener
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

minacciatore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

threatener
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

threatener
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

threatener
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

threatener
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

threatener
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

threatener
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

threatener
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of threatener

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THREATENER»

The term «threatener» is used very little and occupies the 172.212 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THREATENER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about threatener

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QUOTES WITH «THREATENER»

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Bill Dedman
The Secret Service once watched for people who fit the popular profile of dangerousness: the lunatic, the loner, the threatener, the hater.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THREATENER»

Discover the use of threatener in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to threatener and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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International Handbook of Threat Assessment
The primacy of the relationship of threatener to target leads to a management strategy aimed at separating the threatener from the target and the context in which the threat emerged. This is easier said than done. In the domestic situation,  ...
J. Reid Meloy, Jens Hoffmann, 2013
2
Negotiation Games: Applying Game Theory to Bargaining and ...
a cost to the threatener (as well as the threatenee) when the threatener carries out its threat. If this were not the case, there would be no need to threaten an action — it would be rational simply to carry it out. Although carried-out threats may ...
Steven J. Brams, 2003
3
Toward Sustainable Development: An Ecological Economics Approach
Exactly what potential a threat system of power has to create important roles depends on the capability and credibility of the threat- ener (Boulding, 1970a). The threatener, for instance, must be capable of carrying out a promised threat for the ...
Philip Andrew Lawn, 2000
4
Conflict, Power & Games: The Experimental Study of ...
If a threatener generally makes the competitive game choice, the target subject should perceive himself as trapped in a least-of-evils situation. If the target complies, he is exploited by the threatener and loses five points in the game shown in ...
James T. Tedeschi, Barry R. Schlenker, Thomas V. Bonoma
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CONTROL OF BEHAVIOUR.: Edition en anglais
When a threatener meets a fighter. the threatener derives no benefit because it always withdraws. but it incurs negligible cost because the interaction is brief and it suffers no injury. The fighter gains the benefit of possession of the resource and  ...
Frederick M. Toates, 1998
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Story Structure Architect
He could mistake the Rescuerfor a Threatener and fight her off. • He could be angrywith the Rescuerfor rescuing him (wounded pride). • He could critique the Rescuer's plan ortechnique and drive her crazy. • He can antagonize the Threatener, ...
Victoria Lynn Schmidt, 2005
7
The Reason of Terror: Philosophical Responses to Terrorism
For in issuing a credible threat, the threatener puts the threatenee into a position of having to choose between two mutually exclusive alternative options (your money or your life'), when in fact the threatenee's pre-existing entitlements (to ...
Kem Crimmins, Herbert De Vriese, 2006
8
The Quality of Freedom
Usually, an addressee of a threat is able to perform the action which the threatener seeks to discourage. For example, as Chapter 2 several times mentioned, numerous legal requirements (especially in liberal democracies) are enforced ...
Matthew H. Kramer, 2003
9
Cinematic Discourse Generation
Deliverance (?unfortunate, ?threatener, ?rescuer) Description: An unfortunate individual/group under control of a threatener is protected by an unexpected rescuer. Constraints: !Brave(?rescuer) (storyaction ?threateningaction) (effect ...
Aranv Harish Jhala, 2009
10
Resolving Disputes Between Nations: Coercion Or Conciliation?
A threat will be seen as more credible as: (a) the threatener becomes more capable of carrying it out; (b) the threatener states his intention explicitly and makes clear the conditions under which the threat would be carried out; (c) the threatener ...
Martin Patchen, 1988

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THREATENER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term threatener is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Capitol threatener used disposable phone, first called own number …
A man who was charged Monday with making a bomb threat that emptied the Capitol during the Assembly's debate on the state budget used a pre-paid phone ... «Madison.com, Jul 15»
2
Supreme Court overturns Facebook threats conviction
The prosecution has to prove the threatener's intent, which is nearly impossible until they take action on the threat. defector777 5pts. @woodwr @defector777. «CNET, Jun 15»
3
Michael Fabricant reveals he is battling cancer
... why I decided to tweet this - and I thought long and hard about whether to do so - is because if you deal with it early enough it is probably not a life threatener. «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
4
Calvary: A Film That Wrestles with the Cruciform Life
The key point revealed early in the film is that Father James actually knows who the threatener is. We the viewers don't know who the person is until the final few ... «Patheos, Mar 15»
5
Stars Share Their Favorite Emojis, So How Surprising Are Charli …
Like 'Ugh, kill me.'” I must say, I'm not entirely surprised that Iggz is an ironic suicide threatener. I'm guessing that Twitter makes her feel like this every day. «Bustle, Feb 15»
6
U.S. Supreme Court hears case on social media speech
... Ruth Bader Ginsburg questioned how exactly the government could prove whether a particular online threat, “in the mind of the threatener[,] was genuine? «Lexology, Feb 15»
7
Court difficult to read on Facebook threats: In Plain English
... in two of those she pressed Elwood to explain how the government would prove whether a particular threat, “in the mind of the threatener[,] was genuine?”. «SCOTUSblog, Dec 14»
8
Santa Cruz school threatener says other budding terrorists should …
I heard of kids using Yik Yak which is retarded since it transmits there [sic] IP address with it,” the alleged school threatener said in an email to the Santa Cruz ... «VentureBeat, Nov 14»
9
Off switch for life-threatening toxin found by Irish researchers
Researchers at NUI Maynooth have found the “off” switch for a powerful toxin produced by a fungus that is a life threatener for cancer and organ transplant ... «Irish Times, Aug 14»
10
Cease and desist: Empty words without action
One area where we run into difficulties is during the discussion, often with company attorneys, about the need to send a threatener, who has contacted the ... «SecurityInfoWatch, Aug 14»

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