Loaded
Loaded adjective - Containing or seeming to contain the greatest quantity or number possible.
Threatening and loaded are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Threatening" instead an adjective "Loaded".
Threatening
Threatening adjective - Giving signs of immediate occurrence.
Loaded and threatening are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Loaded" instead an adjective "Threatening".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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When one hesitates, Monk gets his way by threatening him with the gun... only to have the second employee point out, after Monk has left the scene, that the gun wasn't loaded.
Source: Ballistic Discount -
To say nothing of pointing his loaded rifle at his squadmate Fergus and threatening to kill him as both revenge for an earlier accident that got him demoted and to relieve his boredom.
Source: Film / Jarhead -
Brick Joke: Honeyfoot drives Childermass away from the asylum and Lady Pole by threatening him with a blunderbuss, which he later admits had been loaded with walnuts.
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