See threatening in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Latin translations",
"Terms with Macedonian translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
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"Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
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{
"word": "life-threatening"
},
{
"word": "nonthreatening"
},
{
"word": "non-threatening"
},
{
"word": "threateningly"
},
{
"word": "threateningness"
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{
"word": "unthreatening"
}
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"name": "inh"
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}
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"form": "more threatening",
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"word": "frightening"
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{
"text": "Never turn your back to someone who is displaying threatening behavior.",
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},
{
"ref": "c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 229, column 1:",
"text": "Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brovv, / And dart not ſcornefull glances from thoſe eies, / To vvound thy Lord, thy King, thy Gouernour.",
"type": "quote"
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"glosses": [
"Presenting a threat, posing a likely risk of harm."
],
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"present"
],
[
"threat",
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],
[
"posing",
"posing"
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[
"likely",
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],
[
"risk",
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],
[
"harm",
"harm"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Making threats, making statements about a willingness to cause harm."
],
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"Making",
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],
[
"threat",
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],
[
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"making"
],
[
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"statement"
],
[
"willingness",
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],
[
"cause",
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[
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]
}
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"enpr": "thrĕt′ənĭŋ"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈθɹɛt.n̩.ɪŋ/"
},
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"synonyms": [
{
"word": "minacious"
},
{
"word": "menacing"
},
{
"tags": [
"dialectal"
],
"word": "threatensome"
},
{
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "threatful"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "threatning"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "pahražálʹny",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "пагража́льны"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "pahrózlivy",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "пагро́злівы"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zaplašitelen",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "заплашителен"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "amenaçador"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "威脅的"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wēixié de",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "威胁的"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "uhkaava"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "menaçant"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "drohend"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "apeilitikós",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "απειλητικός"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "apeilētikós",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "ἀπειλητικός"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "minax"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "minitābundus"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zakanúvački",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "закану́вачки"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"note": "of clouds",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "hākiwakiwa"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"note": "of clouds",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "pōkerekere"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"note": "of clouds",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "pōrukuruku"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "whakawetiweti"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "whakawehiwehi"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "whakahakahaka"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"note": "of rain",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "takareko"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"note": "of the weather",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "paroro"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "truende"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "trugande"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "dreiwent"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "arcygroźny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ameaçador"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "amenințător"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ugrožájuščij",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "угрожа́ющий"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "amenazador"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "hotfull"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zahrózlyvyj",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "загро́зливий"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pohrózlyvyj",
"sense": "presenting a threat",
"word": "погро́зливий"
}
],
"word": "threatening"
}
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"form": "threatenings",
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"ref": "1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts iiij:[29], folio clix, recto:",
"text": "And nowe lorde beholde their threatenyngꝭ / and graunte vnto thy ſervauntꝭ wyth all confydence to ſpeake thy worde.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "Edmund Yates (1884) “A Dickens Chapter”, in Edmund Yates: His Recollections and Experiences, volume II, London: Richard Bentley and Son, page 111:",
"text": "In Mr. J. C. Hotten’s Life, and in Mr. A. W. Ward’s admirable monograph in the “English Men of Letters” Series, a paper of mine called “Pincher Astray” is attributed to Dickens.",
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"An act of threatening; a threat."
],
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"threat",
"threat"
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],
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]
}
],
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"enpr": "thrĕt′ənĭŋ"
},
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"ipa": "/ˈθɹɛt.n̩.ɪŋ/"
},
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{
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"obsolete"
],
"word": "threatning"
}
],
"word": "threatening"
}
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