Threatening vs Enemy - What's the difference?
threatening | enemy |
An act of threatening; a threat.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts IV:
* Charles Dickens, Pincher Astray
Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.
A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.
An alliance of such forces.
Something harmful or threatening to another
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As adjectives the difference between threatening and enemy
is that threatening is presenting a threat; menacing; frightening while enemy is of, relating to, or belonging to an enemy.As nouns the difference between threatening and enemy
is that threatening is an act of threatening; a threat while enemy is someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.As a verb threatening
is present participle of lang=en.threatening
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Alternative forms
* threatning (obsolete)Verb
(head)Derived terms
* life-threatening * nonthreatening, non-threatening * threateningly * threateningness * unthreateningNoun
(en noun)- And nowe lorde beholde their threatenynges , and graunte unto thy servauntes wyth all confydence to speake thy worde.
- The butcher's boy — a fierce and beefy youth, who openly defied the dog, and waved him off with hurlings of his basket and threatenings of his feet, accompanied by growls of "Git out, yer beast!" — now entered silently
enemy
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Noun
(wikipedia enemy) (enemies)- He made a lot of enemies after reducing the working hours in his department.
- Crush the enemy !
- rally together against a common enemy .
- The very thing the 16 skiers and snowboarders had sought — fresh, soft snow — instantly became the enemy . Somewhere above, a pristine meadow cracked in the shape of a lightning bolt, slicing a slab nearly 200 feet across and 3 feet deep. Gravity did the rest.
