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Definitions for Threat

[1] a declaration of an intention or determination to inflict punishment, injury, etc., in retaliation for, or conditionally upon, some action or course; menace: He confessed under the threat of imprisonment.
[2] an indication or warning of probable trouble: The threat of a storm was in the air.
[3] a person or thing that threatens.
[4] Archaic . to threaten.
[5] a declaration of the intention to inflict harm, pain, or misery
[6] an indication of imminent harm, danger, or pain
[7] a person or thing that is regarded as dangerous or likely to inflict pain or misery
[8] an archaic word for threaten

Words related to Threat

peril, risk, blackmail, hazard, intimidation, menace, omen, commination, thunder, fix, bluff, foreboding, fulmination, presage, portent, foreshadowing, impendence

Words nearby Threat

threads, threadworm, thready, thready pulse, threap, threat, threaten, threatened species, threatening, three, three age system

Origin of Threat

before 900; (noun) Middle English threte, Old English thrēat pressure, oppression; cognate with Old Norse thraut hardship, bitter end; (v.) Middle English threten, Old English thrēatian to press, threaten

Other words from Threat

coun·ter·threat , noun

Word origin for Threat

Old English; related to Old Norse thraut, Middle Low German drōt

Synonyms for Threat

blackmail, hazard, intimidation, menace, peril, risk, bluff, commination, fix, foreboding, foreshadowing, fulmination, impendence, omen, portent, presage, thunder, writing on the wall