threat
Meaning of threat
noun
- a statement of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage, or other hostile action on someone in retribution for something done or not done.
members of her family have received death threats
- a person or thing likely to cause damage or danger.
hurricane damage poses a major threat to many coastal communities
Old English thrēat ‘oppression’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch verdrieten ‘grieve’, German verdriessen ‘irritate’.
Information about threat
- It is a name.
- The plural form of threat is: threats.
- Languages in which threat is used:
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Hyphenation of threat
threat
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- threat is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
threat synonyms
Meaning menace:
Meaning terror:
Meaning a statement or event that warns of something or that serves as a cautionary example:
Meaning a final demand or statement of terms, the rejection of which will result in retaliation or a breakdown in relations:
Meaning the action of threatening divine vengeance:
Meaning a person or thing that is likely to cause harm; a threat or danger:
Meaning suggesting the presence of danger; threatening:
Translation of threat
- German: Bedrohung, Drohung
- Portuguese: ameaça, groźba
- French: menace
- Italian: minaccia, intimidazione
- Spanish: amenaza, intimidación, peligro
Anagrams of threat
Words that rhyme with threat
pancreat, cankereat, hereat, intereat, overeat, thereat, undereat, whereat, Great, agreat, great, ingreat, overgreat, ungreat, counterthreat, floreat, Treat, counterretreat, entreat, estreat, extreat, intreat, maltreat, misentreat, mistreat, overentreat, overtreat, pretreat, retreat, treat, undertreat, baccalaureat, wreat
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