Hypertext Webster Gateway: "threat"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Threat \Threat\, v. t. & i. [OE. [thorn]reten, AS.
[thorn]re['a]tian. 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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 immanent; "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}]
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