Category:Threat

Threat, n. Etym: [as. , akin to a to vex, g. verdriessen, ohg. Irdriozan, icel. to fail, want, lack, goth. us to vex, to trouble, Russ. trudite to impose a task, irritate, vex, l. trudere to push. Cf. Abstruse, intrude, obstrude, protrude.]

Defn: the expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on Another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; meance; Threatening; denunciation. There is no terror, cassius, in your threats. Shak.

Threat Threat, v. t. & i. Etym: [oe. , as. . See threat, n.]

Defn: to threaten. [obs. or poetic] shak. Of all his threating reck not a mite. Chaucer. Our dreaded admiral from far they threat. Dryden.