Threat
/THret/
noun
1. a statement of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage, or other hostile action on someone in retribution for something done or not done.
"Members of her family have received death threats"
Similar: threatening remark, warning, ultimatum, intimidating remark, commination, menaces, menacing
2. a person or thing likely to cause damage or danger.
"Hurricane damage poses a major threat to many coastal communities"
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·the possibility of trouble, danger, or ruin.
"the company faces the threat of bankruptcy"
Similar: danger, peril, hazard, menace, risk, possibility, chance, probability