threat

threat: noun

1 expression of intention to do harm/punish

ADJECTIVE

▪ dire, terrible

▪ Despite dire threats of violence from extremist groups, the protest passed off peacefully.

▪ empty, idle

▪ The kids took no notice of the teacher's idle threats.

▪ credible

▪ implied, veiled

▪ The company's pay offer was accompanied by thinly veiled threats if it was rejected.

▪ explicit

▪ physical, violent

▪ verbal

▪ bomb, death, suicide

VERB + THREAT

▪ issue, make, utter

▪ receive

▪ carry out

▪ It's unwise to make threats that you cannot carry out.

▪ lift, withdraw

▪ Teachers have lifted their threat of strike action.

▪ give in to

▪ The government refused to give in to the hijackers' threats.

PREPOSITION

▪ threat against

▪ The accused made death threats against a notable politician.

2 possible danger

ADJECTIVE

▪ big, considerable, dangerous, deadly, grave, great, major, real, serious, significant

▪ main

▪ growing, increasing

▪ constant, continual, ever-present, permanent

▪ new

▪ renewed

▪ The national park is under renewed threat from road-building schemes.

▪ direct, immediate, imminent

▪ The opposition presents no immediate threat to the government.

▪ insidious

▪ long-term, short-term

▪ possible, potential

▪ apparent, perceived

▪ external

▪ The government was faced with internal rebellion as well as external threats.

▪ physical

▪ political

▪ environmental, health

▪ military, nuclear, security, terror, terrorist

VERB + THREAT

▪ be, constitute, pose, present, represent

▪ the environmental threat posed by oil spillages

▪ consider sth (as), perceive sth as, regard sth as, see sth as, view sth as

▪ Translators do not yet perceive computers as a threat to their livelihood.

▪ address, face, meet

▪ reduce

▪ counter, eliminate

THREAT + NOUN

▪ assessment, level

PREPOSITION

▪ under threat

▪ Many wild plants are under threat of extinction.

▪ threat from

▪ the threat from overfishing

▪ threat of

▪ a threat of violence

▪ threat to

▪ The junta reacted violently to the perceived threat to its authority.

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Synonyms:

Menace, denunciation

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threat — W2S2 [θret] n [: Old English;] 1.) [U and C] a statement in which you tell someone that you will cause them harm or trouble if they do not do what you want ▪ Your threats don t scare me. threat of ▪ the threat of military invasion threat from ▪… … Dictionary of contemporary English
threat — [ θret ] noun *** 1. ) count an occasion when someone says that they will cause you harm or problems, especially if you do not do what they tell you to do: threat of: After threats of legal action they stopped the construction. make/issue a… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
threat — n: an expression of an intention to injure another: menace (1) criminal laws against making terroristic threat s Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 … Law dictionary
threat´en|er — threat|en «THEHT uhn», transitive verb. 1. to make a threat against; say what will be done to hurt or punish: »to threaten a person with imprisonment. The farmer threatened to shoot any dog that killed one of his sheep. 2. Figurative. to give… … Useful english dictionary
threat|en — «THEHT uhn», transitive verb. 1. to make a threat against; say what will be done to hurt or punish: »to threaten a person with imprisonment. The farmer threatened to shoot any dog that killed one of his sheep. 2. Figurative. to give warning of… … Useful english dictionary
Threat — may refer to: *behaviour that emphasizes one s aggressive potential, see threat display *An act of coercion wherein a negative consequence is proposed to elicit response (in the case of an empty threat there is no real negative consequence).… … Wikipedia
threat — threat·en; threat·en·er; threat·en·ing·ly; threat·ful; threat; threat·ful·ly; … English syllables
Threat — Threat, v. t. & i. [OE. [thorn]reten, AS. [thorn]re[ a]tian. See {Threat}, n.] To threaten. [Obs. or Poetic] Shak. [1913 Webster] Of all his threating reck not a mite. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Our dreaded admiral from far they threat. Dryden.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
threat — [thret] n. [ME threte < OE threat, a throng, painful pressure, akin to Ger (ver)driessen, to grieve, annoy < IE * treud , to push, press (prob. < base * ter , to rub) > L trudere, to THRUST] 1. an expression of intention to hurt,… … English World dictionary
Threat — (thr[e^]t), n. [AS. [thorn]re[ a]t, akin to [=a][thorn]re[ o]tan to vex, G. verdriessen, OHG. irdriozan, Icel. [thorn]rj[=o]ta to fail, want, lack, Goth. us[thorn]riutan to vex, to trouble, Russ. trudite to impose a task, irritate, vex, L.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
threat — O.E. þreat crowd, troop, also oppression, menace, related to þreotan to trouble, weary, from P.Gmc. *threutanan (Cf. Ger. verdrießen to vex ), from PIE *trud push, press (Cf. L. trudere to press, thrust, O.C.S. trudu oppression, M.Ir … Etymology dictionary

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