Threats
threat (thret), n. (AS.treat, akin to atreotan to
vex, G. verdriessen, OHG. irdriozan, Icel.
trjota to fail, want, lack, Goth. ustriutan
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. reten,AS. treatian. 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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