Word Meanings - THREAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; meance; threatening; denunciation. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. Shak. (more info) irdriozan, Icel. to fail,

Additional info about word: THREAT

The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; meance; threatening; denunciation. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. Shak. (more info) irdriozan, Icel. to fail, want, lack, Goth. us to vex, to trouble, Russ. trudite to impose a task, irritate, vex, L. trudere to push.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of THREAT)

• Menace
• Threat
• denunciation
• threatening

Related words: (words related to THREAT)

• MENACE
  The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come. His commands, his rebukes, his menaces. Milman. The dark menace of the distant war. Dryden. (more info) acis, projecting,
• THREATEN
  1. To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
• THREAT
  The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; meance; threatening; denunciation. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. Shak. (more info) irdriozan, Icel. to fail,
• THREATFUL
  Full of threats; having a menacing appearance. Spenser. -- Threat"ful*ly, adv.
• MENACER
  One who menaces.
• THREATENER
  One who threatens. Shak.
• DENUNCIATION
  1. Proclamation; announcement; a publishing. Public . . . denunciation of banns before marriage. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly arraigning; arraignment.
• THREATENING
  a. & n. from Threaten, v. -- Threat"en*ing*ly, adv. Threatening letters , letters containing threats, especially those designed to extort money, or to obtain other property, by menaces; blackmailing letters.