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Threat Meaning & Definition
Threat Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Threat?

[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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Threat: menace | scourge | terror

Related Terms | Find terms related to Threat:

See Also | commination | danger | declaration | human | individual | menace | mortal | person | somebody | someone | soul | warning | yellow peril

Threat In Webster's Dictionary

\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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