To hold out threats against; = threaten, v. 2.

To hold out or offer (some injury) by way of a threat; to declare one's intention of inflicting. with noun or pronoun as object.

To threaten (transitive and intransitive). Obsolete.

To utter or hold out threats against; to threaten; to be a threat to. transitive. Without infinitive. (The prevailing use.) Also with with.

transitive. To threaten. Also absol. or intransitive to use threatenings.

transitive. To threaten, menace (a thing).