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| assault |
in law, an attempt or threat to hurt another person. [1/5 definitions] |
| assault and battery |
in law, the act of, and charge against, an offender who threatens and carries out the threat to attack or do other physical violence to another. |
| at gunpoint |
under the threat of being shot. |
| blackjack |
to coerce by threat. [1/6 definitions] |
| blackmail |
to force or attempt to force (someone) to pay money or perform some action under the threat of having damaging information revealed. [1/3 definitions] |
| censor |
one who examines personal correspondence of soldiers or prisoners in order to delete information considered a threat to security or propriety. [1/6 definitions] |
| counterthreat |
combined form of threat. |
| darkly |
with threat, mystery, or menace. [1/2 definitions] |
| exact |
to require, demand, or cause to be given up, esp. by use of force or threat. [1/4 definitions] |
| gunboat diplomacy |
the use or threat of small-scale military intervention to further one nation's interests in another nation. |
| let |
used in the imperative to express threat or warning, or to express a command or request. [1/8 definitions] |
| menace |
that which poses a danger or threatens injury or harm; threat. [3/4 definitions] |
| minatory |
presenting a threat; menacing. |
| paper tiger |
a person, group, or nation that seems strong or powerful enough to pose a threat, but is actually weak or ineffectual; empty threat. |
| power play |
a method or operation, as in politics or business, that depends on power, or the threat of employing it, for success. [1/3 definitions] |
| purge |
the political act of killing or expelling those who are considered to be a threat to an existing power. [1/12 definitions] |
| rob |
to steal money or property from unlawfully and with the use or threat of force. [1/4 definitions] |
| robbery |
the act or practice or an instance of robbing, esp. with the threat or use of force. |
| saber rattling |
a menacing display of military force, or the verbal threat to use it. |
| scowl |
to make one's eyebrows contract in an expression of anger, threat, displeasure, or the like; glower. [1/3 definitions] |
| self-defense |
the legal right to defend oneself against mortal threat by necessary means. [1/3 definitions] |
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