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Webster 1913 Edition

Threatening

Threat′en-ing

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Adj.
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Noun.
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Threaten
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Verb.
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Threat′en-ing-ly
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adv.
Threatening letters
(Law)
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letters containing threats, especially those designed to extort money, or to obtain other property, by menaces; blackmailing letters.

Webster 1828 Edition

Threatening

THREATENING

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ppr.
thret'ning. Menacing; denouncing evil.
1.
a. Indicating a threat or menace; as a threatening look.
2.
Indicating something impending; as, the weather is threatening; the clouds have a threatening aspect.

THREATENING

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Noun.
thret'ning. The act of menacing; a menace; a denunciation of evil, or declaration of a purpose to inflict evil on a person or country, usually for sins and offenses. The prophets are filled with God's threatenings against the rebellious Jews. Acts 4.

Definition 2024

threatening

threatening

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Alternative forms

Verb

threatening

  1. present participle of threaten

Adjective

threatening ‎(comparative more threatening, superlative most threatening)

  1. Presenting a threat; menacing; frightening.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

threatening ‎(plural threatenings)

  1. An act of threatening; a threat.
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts IV:
      And nowe lorde beholde their threatenynges, and graunte unto thy servauntes wyth all confydence to speake thy worde.
    • Charles Dickens, Pincher Astray
      The butcher's boy — a fierce and beefy youth, who openly defied the dog, and waved him off with hurlings of his basket and threatenings of his feet, accompanied by growls of "Git out, yer beast!" — now entered silently […]

Etymology

From threaten +‎ -ing.

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