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English

Etymology

{{term|þreat|þrēat|crowd, army}}.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /θret/
  • ,
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-threat.ogg



Noun

  1. an expression of intent to injure or punish another.
  2. an indication of imminent danger.
  3. a person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.


Related terms


Translations

  • Czech: {{t-|cs|hrozba|f}}
  • Finnish:
  • German: {{t+|de|Drohung|f}}
  • Italian: {{t+|it|minaccia|f}}
  • Japanese: {{t|ja|脅迫|tr=kyōhaku|sc=Jpan}}, {{t|ja|脅かし|tr=odokashi|sc=Jpan}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|угроза|f|tr=ugróza|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|amenaza|f}}
  • Swedish: {{t-|sv|hot|n}}
  • Finnish:
  • German: {{t-|de|Bedrohung|f}}
  • Japanese: {{t|ja|脅威|tr=kyōi|sc=Jpan}}
  • Kurdish: {{t+|ku|هه‌ڕه‌شه‌|sc=KUchar}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|угроза|f|tr=ugróza|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t+|ru|опасность|f|tr=opásnost'|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|amenaza|f}}
  • Swedish: {{t-|sv|hot|n}}
  • Japanese: {{t|ja|脅威|tr=kyōi|sc=Jpan}}
  • Swedish: {{t-|sv|hot|n}}

Anagrams


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Threat \Threat\, v. t. & i. [OE. [thorn]reten, AS.
[thorn]re['a]tian. See Threat, n.]
To threaten. [Obs. or Poetic] --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

Of all his threating reck not a mite. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]

Our dreaded admiral from far they threat. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Threat \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.
[1913 Webster]

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. --Shak.
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WordNet threat
n 1: something that is a source of danger; "earthquakes are a
constant threat in Japan" [syn: menace]
2: a warning that something unpleasant is imminent; "they were
under threat of arrest"
3: declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict
harm on another; "his threat to kill me was quite
explicit"
4: a person who inspires fear or dread; "he was the terror of
the neighborhood" [syn: terror, scourge]
Moby Dictionary
admonishment , admonition , alarm , breakers ahead , cardhouse ,
cause for alarm , caution , caveat , commination , crisis , danger ,
dangerous ground , deterrent example , emergency , endangerment ,
example , final notice , final warning , foreboding , forewarning ,
gaping chasm , gathering clouds , hazard , hint , house of cards ,
imperilment , intimation , intimidation , jeopardy , lesson , menace ,
monition , moral , notice , notification , object lesson , omen , pass ,
peril , pinch , plight , portent , predicament , presage , quicksand ,
risk , rocks ahead , storm clouds , strait , thin ice , tip-off ,
ultimatum , verbum sapienti , warning , warning piece


THREAT, crim. law. A menace of destruction or injury to the lives or property of those against whom it is made. 2. Sending threatening letters to persons for the purpose of extorting money, is said to, be a misdemeanor at common law. Hawk. B. 1, c. 53, s. 1; 2 Russ. on Cr. 575; 2 Chit. Cr. L. 841; 4 Bl. Com. l26. To be indictable, the threat must be of a nature calculated to overcome a firm and prudent man. The party who makes a threat may be held to bail for his good behaviour. Vide Com. Dig. Battery, D; 13 Vin. Ab. 357.
THREAT, evidence. Menace. 2. When a confession is obtained from a person accused of crime, in consequence of a threat, evidence of such confession cannot be received, because, being obtained by the torture of fear, it comes in so questionable a shape, that no credit ought to be given to it; 1 Leach, 263; this is the general principle, but what amounts to a threat is not so easily defined. It is proper to observe, however, that the threat must be made by a person having authority over the prisoner, or by another in the presence of such authorized person, and not dissented from by the latter. 8 C. & P. 733. Vide Confession, and the cases there cited.
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