Threatening vs. Blackmail
Difference Between Threatening and Blackmail
Threateningadjective
Presenting a threat; menacing; frightening.
Never turn your back to someone who is displaying threatening behavior.Blackmailnoun
The extortion of money by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.
Threateningnoun
An act of threatening; a threat.
Blackmailnoun
(archaic) A form of protection money (or corn, cattle, etc.) anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to the allies of robbers in order to be spared from pillage.
Threateningadjective
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments;
a baleful lookforbidding thundercloudshis tone became menacingominous rumblings of discontentsinister storm cloudsa sinister smilehis threatening behaviorugly black cloudsthe situation became uglyBlackmailnoun
Black rent, or rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin, as opposed to white rent, which was paid in silver.
Threateningadjective
darkened by clouds;
a heavy skyBlackmailnoun
Compromising material that can be used to extort someone, dirt.
Blackmailverb
(transitive) To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.
He blackmailed a businesswoman by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.Blackmailnoun
extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information
Blackmailverb
exert pressure on someone through threats
Blackmailverb
obtain through threats
