THREAT

threat|thret. Threat, or Thret, n. a menace, a denunciation of ill

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Threat (thrĕt), 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.