Dared
Threatened and dared are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Threatened" instead a verb "Dared".
Threatened
Threatened adjective - (of flora or fauna) likely in the near future to become endangered.
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Synonyms for Threatened
Dared and threatened are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dared" instead a verb "Threatened".
Nearby Words: threatening, threat
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Flashback Echo: While being threatened by the Half-Faced Man, Clara flashes back to her first day as a teacher, when she threatened to have the whole class expelled and a girl dared her to go ahead and do it.
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Cyrus "the Virus" Grissom, the Big Bad of Con Air and a mass murderer who claims to have killed more men than cancer, threatened to throw "Johnny 23," a convicted serial rapist, out of the title plane if he dared to try to rape the hijacked plane's only female officer.
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