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Threatening
//ˈθɹɛtə.nɪŋ// adj, noun, verb
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Presenting a threat, posing a likely risk of harm.
"Never turn your back to someone who is displaying threatening behavior."
- 2 Making threats, making statements about a willingness to cause harm.
Adjective
- 1 threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments wordnet
- 2 darkened by clouds wordnet
Noun
- 1 An act of threatening; a threat. countable, uncountable
"And nowe lorde beholde their threatenyngꝭ / and graunte vnto thy ſervauntꝭ wyth all confydence to ſpeake thy worde."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of threaten form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English thretenyng, þreteninde, equivalent to threaten + -ing.
Etymology 2
From Middle English thretenyng, þreteninde, equivalent to threaten + -ing.
Etymology 3
From Middle English thretenyng, thretnynge, þretnynge, equivalent to threaten + -ing.
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