Meaning of THREAT
| Pronunciation: | | thret
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- [n] declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another; "his threat to kill me was quite explicit"
- [n] a warning that something unpleasant is immanent; "they were under threat of arrest"
- [n] a person who inspires fear or dread; "he was the terror of the neighborhood"
- [n] something that is a source of danger; "earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan"
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| | Synonyms: | | menace, scourge, terror |
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| | See Also: | | commination, danger, declaration, human, individual, menace, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul, warning, yellow peril | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Threat\ (thr[e^]t), n. [AS. [thorn]re['a]t, akin to
[=a][thorn]re['o]tan to vex, G. verdriessen, OHG. irdriozan,
Icel. [thorn]rj[=o]ta to fail, want, lack, Goth.
us[thorn]riutan to vex, to trouble, Russ. trudite to impose a
task, irritate, vex, L. trudere to push. Cf. {Abstruse},
{Intrude}, {Obstrude}, {Protrude}.]
The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on
another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come;
menace; threatening; denunciation.
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. --Shak.
\Threat\, v. t. & i. [OE. [thorn]reten, AS.
[thorn]re['a]tian. See {Threat}, n.]
To threaten. [Obs. or Poetic] --Shak.
Of all his threating reck not a mite. --Chaucer.
Our dreaded admiral from far they threat. --Dryden.
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