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threatening
adjective (EXPRESSING POSSIBILITY) /ˈθret·ən·ɪŋ/Definition
› expressing the possibility that something unwanted or unpleasant will happen: Threatening skies meant a storm was coming.
(Definition of threatening adjective (EXPRESSING POSSIBILITY) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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