See Also: Threat(money)
threat(1)(dictionary)
threat(2)(dictionary)
threat(dictionary)
THREAT, crim(law)
THREAT, evidence(law)
Triple-Threat Player - Poker(gambling)

threat(2) (iou)



threat verb. Now arch., Scot., & dial.
[Old English Treatian threaten, Treotan trouble, Dutch verdrieten weary, Old High German irdrioan vex (German verdriessen annoy), Gothic usTriutan trouble, from Germanic, prob. cogn. with Latin trudere thrust.]
verb trans. Press, urge, try to force or induce, esp. by means of threats. Foll. by that, to do. OE-M17.
verb trans. Rebuke, reprove. OE-ME.
verb trans. = THREATEN 2. OE.
verb trans. = THREATEN 3, 5. ME.
verb intrans. = THREATEN 4. ME.
? Largely superseded by THREATEN.