Threat

thret, n. Declaration of an intention or de- termination to inflict punishment, lo , or pain on another menace denunciation. [AS., a crowd, crush, or throng of people, a calamity, trouble, pre ure, hence a threat, rebuke, orig. imp. of threotan, to pre , afflict, vex, urge; L. trudere, to push, crowd, pre upon, Gr. true in, to vex, trauma, a wound, trume, a hole, thing made by boring, trusis, distre , AS. threa, a throe, affliction, E. throe, trite, abstruse, extrude, intrude, obtrude, etc.] — Threafful, -ful, a. Full of threats having a — menacing appearance. Threat'en, -n, v. [-eked (-nd), -ening.] To hold up to, as a terror, the expectation of evil; to menace; to exhibit the appearance of something evil or unpleasant as approaching to or toward. — v. To use threats or menaces. — Threafener, n. — Threatening, p. a. Indicating a threat or menace; indicating something impending; imminent.