Growing
Growing adjective - Relating to or suitable for growth.
Threatening and growing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Threatening" instead an adjective "Growing".
Threatening
Threatening adjective - Giving signs of immediate occurrence.
Growing and threatening are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Growing" instead an adjective "Threatening".
Both words in one sentence
- The vortexes are slowly growing, threatening to pull all 50 of those dimensions into the nothing, followed by the rest of the multiverse.
Source: Apocalypse How / Class X-5 -
Reimei No Arcana: Loki has quite a few elements of Yandere, from threatening Caesar for insulting Nakaba and regretting that he didn't kill Caesar due to Nakaba's and Caesar's growing closeness in earlier chapters to killing Bella for threatening to have Nakaba either killed or raped by soldiers.
Source: Murder the Hypotenuse - Wodehouse, which typically begin with a disruption of the status quo — an engagement broken off, a cook threatening to resign, Bertie growing a moustache — and end with its restoration.
Source: Status Quo Is God
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