THREATED
Verb
threated
simple past tense and past participle of threat
Anagrams
• hattered, rehatted, treadeth
Source: Wiktionary
THREAT
Threat, n. Etym: [AS. , akin to a to vex, G. verdriessen, OHG. irdriozan, Icel. to fail, want, lack, Goth. us to vex, to trouble, Russ. trudite to impose a task, irritate, vex, L. trudere to push. Cf. Abstruse, Intrude, Obstrude, Protrude.]
Definition: 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.
Threat, v. t. & i. Etym: [OE. , AS. . See Threat, n.]
Definition: 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’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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