Threat 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 .
Threat v. t. & i.[OE. þreten , AS. þreátian . See Threat , n.
To threaten. [Obs. or Poetic]
Of all his threating reck not a mite.
Our dreaded admiral from far they threat .