Threat

Definition of threat:

part of speech: noun

A menace; an announcement of coming evil or danger.

part of speech: noun

Announcement of hostile or evil intentions; menace.

part of speech: verb

To threaten.

part of speech: noun

Declaration of an intention to inflict punishment or other evil upon another: menace.

Usage examples for threat:

• This threat received little attention from those most concerned. "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Vol. 1 (of 2)", Jefferson Davis.

• Is the threat of that death enough? "The Crystal Stopper", Maurice LeBlanc.

• Not even the German Emperor could now deny that Lennard had made no idle threat at Canterbury when he had given him the destruction of the world as an alternative to the conquest of Britain. "The World Peril of 1910", George Griffith.

• Here is a threat 'twas meant to warn. "Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems", Eric Mackay.