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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Threat

/(thrĕt)/ · IPA /θɹɛt/
01 n. The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening…
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    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.
02 v. t. & i. To threaten.
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    To threaten.[Obs. or Poetic]
    “Of all his threating reck not a mite.” — Chaucer.
    “Our dreaded admiral from far they threat.” — Dryden.