Cryptic crossword clue
Threatening sound of cattle crossing English river 8

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word LOWERING

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The straight part
We know that "Threatening" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case threatening = lowering.
The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does LOWERING mean?

LOWERING noun
  1. The act of one who, or that which, lours.
LOWERING adjective
  1. (of sky or environment) Dark and menacing.
  2. That lowers or frowns.
  3. Lurking, skulking, menacing.
LOWERING verb
  1. To frown; to look sullen.
  2. To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; of the sky: to be covered with dark and threatening clouds; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
LOWERING verb
  1. To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
  2. To pull down
  3. To reduce the height of
  4. To depress as to direction
  5. To make less elevated
  6. To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
  7. To bring down; to humble
  8. (lower oneself) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
  9. To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
  10. To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
  11. To decrease in value, amount, etc.
LOWERING noun
  1. The act of something being lowered.

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