threat
11threat — O.E. þreat crowd, troop, also oppression, menace, related to þreotan to trouble, weary, from P.Gmc. *threutanan (Cf. Ger. verdrießen to vex ), from PIE *trud push, press (Cf. L. trudere to press, thrust, O.C.S. trudu oppression, M.Ir …
12threat — [n] warning; danger blackmail, bluff, commination, fix, foreboding, foreshadowing, fulmination, hazard, impendence, intimidation, menace, omen, peril, portent, presage, risk, thunder, writing on the wall*; concept 278 …
13threat — ► NOUN 1) a stated intention to inflict injury, damage, or other hostile action on someone. 2) a person or thing likely to cause damage or danger. 3) the possibility of trouble or danger. ORIGIN Old English, «oppression» …
14threat — n. 1) to issue, make, utter a threat 2) to carry out, fulfill a threat 3) to be, constitute, pose a threat 4) a covert; dire, grave, serious; direct; empty, idle; explicit; imminent; implicit; terroristic; veiled threat 5) a security threat 6) a… …
15threat */*/*/ — UK [θret] / US noun Word forms threat : singular threat plural threats 1) [countable/uncountable] a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger threat to: Officials were confident there had been no threat to public health. a threat… …
16threat — noun 1 expression of intention to do harm/punish ADJECTIVE ▪ dire, terrible ▪ Despite dire threats of violence from extremist groups, the protest passed off peacefully. ▪ empty, idle ▪ The ki …
17threat — /Tret/ noun 1 (C, U) a statement that you will cause someone pain, unhappiness, or trouble: Your threats don t scare me! (+ of): the threat of strike action | make/issue a threat against: Threats have been made against the book s author. | give… …
18threat — [[t]θre̱t[/t]] ♦♦ threats 1) N VAR: with supp, oft N to/from n, N of n A threat to a person or thing is a danger that something unpleasant might happen to them. A threat is also the cause of this danger. Some couples see single women as a threat… …
19threat — 01. Police have received an anonymous [threat] declaring that a bomb has been planted at the airport. 02. Making [threatening] gestures to someone can be considered a form of assault. 03. The Martians [threatened] to destroy all humankind if… …
20threat*/*/ — [θret] noun 1) [C] someone or something that could cause harm or danger She is not viewed as a threat by her former employer.[/ex] a threat to freedom[/ex] The dispute poses a threat (= is a threat) to peace.[/ex] 2) [C] an occasion when someone… …
