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  1. 1. 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; denunciation. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. To threaten. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. something that is a source of danger Source: wordnet
  4. 4. n. a warning that something unpleasant is imminent Source: wordnet
  5. 5. n. declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another Source: wordnet
  6. 6. n. a person who inspires fear or dread Source: wordnet
  7. 7. 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. To threaten. [Obs. or Poetic] Shak. Of all his threating reck not a mite. Chaucer. Our dreaded admiral from far they threat. Dryden. Source: webster
  8. 8. The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury onanother; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; meance;threatening; denunciation.There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. Shak. Source: adambom
  9. 9. n:100 n. a warning that something unpleasant is imminent n. declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another Source: ecdict

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