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Synonyms for threat

Grammar : Noun
Spell : thret
Phonetic Transcription : θrɛt

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Définition of threat

Origin :
  • Old English þreat "crowd, troop," also "oppression, menace," related to þreotan "to trouble, weary," from Proto-Germanic *threutanan (cf. German verdrießen "to vex"), from PIE *trud- "push, press" (cf. Latin trudere "to press, thrust," Old Church Slavonic trudu "oppression," Middle Irish trott "quarrel, conflict," M.Welsh cythrud "torture, torment, afflict"). Sense of "conditional declaration of hostile intention" was in Old English.
  • noun warning; danger
Example sentences :
  • Then I shall have to put it out of your power to carry out your threat.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • And you forget that—that devil—suppose she's as good as her threat?
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • One threat which he used again and again, discovers all his world-blindness to me.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • He did not seem particularly alarmed at her threat—or, perhaps, he did not care.
  • Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
  • "I'll have you before his honour," is the threat of an Irishman who hopes for partiality.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • Naturally, this threat had no effect upon the victorious blacks.
  • Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
  • Mason received the threat as a joke, and laughed in Turkey's face.
  • Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
  • It needs a war, not a threat of war, to consolidate Austria and Hungary.
  • Extract from : « Jennie Baxter, Journalist » by Robert Barr
  • But it should be a threat, which is the ware in which you are fond of dealing.
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • This I say, not as a threat, but as a warning, for I know him to be a man who is like to be as good as his word.'
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle

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