Threat (thr&ebreve;t), n. [AS.
þreát, akin to āþreótan to
vex, G. verdriessen, OHG. irdriozan, Icel.
þrjōta to fail, want, lack, Goth. usþriutan
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. & i. [OE. þreten,
AS. þreátian. 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.
Threat (thr&ebreve;t), n. [AS.
þreát, akin to āþreótan to
vex, G. verdriessen, OHG. irdriozan, Icel.
þrjōta to fail, want, lack, Goth. usþriutan
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. & i. [OE. þreten,
AS. þreátian. 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.
