threatenv.

Brit.

/ˈθrɛtn/, U.S.

/ˈθrɛtn/

Forms: Old English þreatnian, Middle English þret(t)ne(n, þretni, Middle English þret(t)en, Middle English–1500s threten, thretne, 1500s thretten, Scottish threiten, (1500s–1700s thretn-), 1500s– threaten.

Etymology: Old English þréat-n-ian, < þréat, threat n. + -en suffix⁵.

†1. transitive. To press, urge, force; = threat v. 1. Only in Old English.

ΚΠ

c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 424 Neadað se deofol eow þæt ge cristene men to his biggengum ðreatniað?

a. To try to influence (a person) by menaces; to utter or hold out a threat against; to declare (usually conditionally) one's intention of inflicting injury upon (in quot. 1816, one's certainty that some specified injury will fall upon); to menace. Const. with the thing; also with complement clause (with finite vb. or infinitive).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten (evil, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > make threats against

threata1000

threatenc1290

menacec1384

menacea1400

menacec1400

shorec1475

boasta1522

worrya1556

threapen1559

bravea1619

bethreatened1635

braveer1652

bay1796

comminate1801

bravo1831

mau-mau1970

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 35/41 He þrettnede faste hermogenes.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 2391 Þe picars were wroþe ek & þretnede him ynou.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 419 Alisaundre þretteneþ þe Iewes.

14.. Sir Beues 3341 (MS. N.) He me thretenyd for to slen.

1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. v. 68 A tyrant dide do tormente Anamaximenes & thretenyd hym for to cutte of his tonge.

c1503 Beuys of Southhamptowne (Pynson) 3001 He threteneth me to be slayne.]

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. NNNiiii^v Traian, commaunded hym to speke no more of it, thretnyng hym, that if he dyd, he shulde lese his heed.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxxi. 186 Threatning them with Punishment.

1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. iv. 98 I won't be threatened neither.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 329 In vain his wife..hung by his skirts, threatening him with death..for meddling wi' other folk's matters.

1834 Picture of Liverpool 39 All classes were threatened to be overwhelmed in one universal ruin.

†b. To charge or command with threats of punishment or displeasure; to command sternly or strictly. (Chiefly in biblical versions.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > strictness > make more strict or severe [verb (transitive)] > command strictly or sternly

threatenc1384

the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > inhere in or be an attribute of [verb (transitive)] > attribute or ascribe as an attribute > to a person

reputea1425

supposea1450

threaten1555

to threap (something) upon1559

to pin one's faith (also hope, etc.) on (also to) a person's sleeve1583

intend1615

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark viii. 30 And he thretenyde hem, that thei schulden nat seie to ony man of him.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts iv. 17 Lett vs threten and chaurge them that they speake hence forth to noo man in this name.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. xi. f. 158^v They..threatned them to auoyde the lande excepte they woolde bee distroyed euery manne.

1582 Bible (Rheims) Mark i. 25 And Iesvs threatened him, saying, Hold thy peace, and goe out of the man.

c. figurative (chiefly of impersonal agents or objects): To be likely to injure; to be a source of danger to; to endanger actively.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > endanger [verb (transitive)] > be a source of danger to

threat1422

threaten1638

1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 34 Perhaps the tempest that threatens my head will fall but at my feete.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 140 The Wind..blew very hard, threatning us with a Storm.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xix. 139 The Persian monarch, elated by victory, again threatened the peace of Asia.

1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. 381 Where one threatens the existence of another.

1877 J. A. Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. i. ii. 23 France and England had been..drawn together by a special danger which threatened Christendom.

3. To hold out or offer (some injury) by way of a threat; to declare one's intention of inflicting.

a. with infinitive or clause as object.

ΚΠ

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 11209 Þe burgeis were þo bolde, & þretnede to nime mo.

1567 R. Sempill in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 54 The Propheit threitnit..That war and battell sould his land pas throw.

1649 E. Reynolds Israels Prayer (new ed.) iv. 59 God threatneth terribly to shake the earth.

1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 49 They threatned also what men they would be.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iii. 146 Threatning to murder all who should oppose them.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxi. 663 He was at last forced to threaten that he would immediately make the whole matter public.

b. with noun or pronoun as object.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten (evil, etc.) [verb (transitive)]

threata1000

threaten1297

threapen1340

menacea1400

shorec1475

interminatea1631

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 9383 Mid word he þretneþ muche & lute deþ in dede.

c1450 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 483/1 (note) (MS. Coll. Arms) He meketh prout men, and he thretneth werre.

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. K7 These cowards..threaten conquest on our Soueraigne.

1649 E. Reynolds Israels Prayer (new ed.) i. 43 They..should unwillingly suffer what he threatneth.

1774 E. Burke Corr. (1844) I. 498 The party that has lost the election threatens a petition.

1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. xii. 585 Reluctant to inflict the penalty that had been threatened.

a. figurative. Of things, conditions: To give ominous indication of (impending evil); to presage, portend.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [verb (transitive)] > prefigure or foreshadow

portendc1429

foreshadow1577

threatena1616

overbrood1818

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > portend, betoken [verb (transitive)] > evil

threatena1616

exaugurate1652

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 4 The skies looke grimly, And threaten present blusters.

c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 188 Another pendent towre (like that at Pisa) always threatning ruine.

1818–20 E. Thompson Cullen's Nosologia (ed. 3) 247 A sense of hunger threatening syncope.

1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting viii. 339 The weather constantly threatens rain.

intransitive for passive.1850 D. G. Mitchell Reveries of Bachelor 175 Hostilities would sometimes threaten between the school and village boys.

b. with infinitive: To appear likely to do some evil.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > face danger [verb (intransitive)] > appear probable (to do or turn out evil)

to make semblant1470

threaten1780

1780 Mirror No. 81. ⁋9 I am sometimes..frightened with dangers that threaten to diminish it [my estate].

1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iv. 25 It threatens to be wet to-night.

1899 ‘A. Hope’ King's Mirror ix Age had not bent, but it threatened to break him.

1912 N.E.D. at Threaten Mod. The new drainage scheme threatens to be an expensive undertaking.

5. absol. or intransitive. To utter or use threats; to declare one's intention of injuring or punishing in order to influence.

a. literal (absolute use of 2 or 3).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten [verb (intransitive)]

threaten1297

threatc1300

menacec1384

meanc1425

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 10308 Nou sir clerc quaþ þe king ȝe mowe þretni ynou.

c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. xviii. 86 Þou shalt not þreten euerlastingly.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 56 An eye like Mars, to threaten or command.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 221 If too closely pursued, they [sc. snakes] hiss and threaten.

1864 in H. T. Ellacombe Church Bells Devon (1872) 267 Do not threaten,..never let down your dignity by one single word of violence.

b. figurative (absolute use of 2c or 4). To portend evil.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > portend, betoken [verb (intransitive)] > evil

threatena1616

augur1788

bode1870

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 181 Though the Seas threaten they are mercifull.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. ii. 6 A two-edg'd faulchion threaten'd by his side.

1793 A. Mann Let. 28 Oct. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 437 Our political horizon blackens and threatens more and more.

1912 N.E.D. at Threaten Mod. The weather threatens.

6. to threaten kindness (upon a person): apparently an altered form of the phrase to threap kindness upon at threap v. 4b. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxlvij The byshop of Rome sendeth his letters to the Swisses, & threatning vpon them kindnes, for the frenship that had ben betwene them & his predecessours.

1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 26^v Philautus..threateneth suche kindenesse at my handes, and such courtesie at yours, that hee shoulde accompte mee his wyfe before hee woe mee.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 144/1 The moonks being ouercome with the kings words, threatning kindnesse vpon them, fulfilled his request.

7. In weakened use: to express an intention to do something, not necessarily evil.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > intention > intend [verb] > intend to do something > express intention to do something

threaten1925

1925 Dial. Notes 5 344 Threaten, v.i., promise; as, he threatened to give me money.

1928 A. Huxley Let. 1 May (1969) 296 [He] was lunching here today and broached a notion about a preliminary limited edition... He threatens to come and talk to you about it.

Derivatives

ˈthreatenable adj. that may be threatened.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [adjective] > exposed to danger > vulnerable

openeOE

subjectc1384

pregnablec1475

opportunea1500

casuala1535

wide open?1544

obnoxious1572

assailable1589

liable1593

abnoxious1611

woundable1611

obnoxious1612

speeding1612

infectible1634

sufferable1651

attackable1656

vulnerable1678

prejudicial1682

threatenable1841

doable1849

infectable1860

1841–4 R. W. Emerson Exper. in Wks. (1906) I. 186 The chagrins which the bad heart gives off..take form..and threaten or insult whatever is threatenable and insultable in us.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	threaten
释义	threatenv. Brit. /ˈθrɛtn/, U.S. /ˈθrɛtn/ Forms: Old English þreatnian, Middle English þret(t)ne(n, þretni, Middle English þret(t)en, Middle English–1500s threten, thretne, 1500s thretten, Scottish threiten, (1500s–1700s thretn-), 1500s– threaten. Etymology: Old English þréat-n-ian, < þréat, threat n. + -en suffix⁵. †1. transitive. To press, urge, force; = threat v. 1. Only in Old English. ΚΠ c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 424 Neadað se deofol eow þæt ge cristene men to his biggengum ðreatniað? 2. a. To try to influence (a person) by menaces; to utter or hold out a threat against; to declare (usually conditionally) one's intention of inflicting injury upon (in quot. 1816, one's certainty that some specified injury will fall upon); to menace. Const. with the thing; also with complement clause (with finite vb. or infinitive). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten (evil, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > make threats against threata1000 threatenc1290 menacec1384 menacea1400 menacec1400 shorec1475 boasta1522 worrya1556 threapen1559 bravea1619 bethreatened1635 braveer1652 bay1796 comminate1801 bravo1831 mau-mau1970 c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 35/41 He þrettnede faste hermogenes. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 2391 Þe picars were wroþe ek & þretnede him ynou. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 419 Alisaundre þretteneþ þe Iewes. 14.. Sir Beues 3341 (MS. N.) He me thretenyd for to slen. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. v. 68 A tyrant dide do tormente Anamaximenes & thretenyd hym for to cutte of his tonge. c1503 Beuys of Southhamptowne (Pynson) 3001 He threteneth me to be slayne.] 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. NNNiiii^v Traian, commaunded hym to speke no more of it, thretnyng hym, that if he dyd, he shulde lese his heed. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxxi. 186 Threatning them with Punishment. 1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. iv. 98 I won't be threatened neither. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 329 In vain his wife..hung by his skirts, threatening him with death..for meddling wi' other folk's matters. 1834 Picture of Liverpool 39 All classes were threatened to be overwhelmed in one universal ruin. †b. To charge or command with threats of punishment or displeasure; to command sternly or strictly. (Chiefly in biblical versions.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > strictness > make more strict or severe [verb (transitive)] > command strictly or sternly threatenc1384 the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > inhere in or be an attribute of [verb (transitive)] > attribute or ascribe as an attribute > to a person reputea1425 supposea1450 threaten1555 to threap (something) upon1559 to pin one's faith (also hope, etc.) on (also to) a person's sleeve1583 intend1615 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark viii. 30 And he thretenyde hem, that thei schulden nat seie to ony man of him. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts iv. 17 Lett vs threten and chaurge them that they speake hence forth to noo man in this name. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. xi. f. 158^v They..threatned them to auoyde the lande excepte they woolde bee distroyed euery manne. 1582 Bible (Rheims) Mark i. 25 And Iesvs threatened him, saying, Hold thy peace, and goe out of the man. c. figurative (chiefly of impersonal agents or objects): To be likely to injure; to be a source of danger to; to endanger actively. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > endanger [verb (transitive)] > be a source of danger to threat1422 threaten1638 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 34 Perhaps the tempest that threatens my head will fall but at my feete. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 140 The Wind..blew very hard, threatning us with a Storm. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xix. 139 The Persian monarch, elated by victory, again threatened the peace of Asia. 1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. 381 Where one threatens the existence of another. 1877 J. A. Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. i. ii. 23 France and England had been..drawn together by a special danger which threatened Christendom. 3. To hold out or offer (some injury) by way of a threat; to declare one's intention of inflicting. a. with infinitive or clause as object. ΚΠ 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 11209 Þe burgeis were þo bolde, & þretnede to nime mo. 1567 R. Sempill in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 54 The Propheit threitnit..That war and battell sould his land pas throw. 1649 E. Reynolds Israels Prayer (new ed.) iv. 59 God threatneth terribly to shake the earth. 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 49 They threatned also what men they would be. View more context for this quotation 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iii. 146 Threatning to murder all who should oppose them. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxi. 663 He was at last forced to threaten that he would immediately make the whole matter public. b. with noun or pronoun as object. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten (evil, etc.) [verb (transitive)] threata1000 threaten1297 threapen1340 menacea1400 shorec1475 interminatea1631 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 9383 Mid word he þretneþ muche & lute deþ in dede. c1450 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 483/1 (note) (MS. Coll. Arms) He meketh prout men, and he thretneth werre. 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. K7 These cowards..threaten conquest on our Soueraigne. 1649 E. Reynolds Israels Prayer (new ed.) i. 43 They..should unwillingly suffer what he threatneth. 1774 E. Burke Corr. (1844) I. 498 The party that has lost the election threatens a petition. 1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. xii. 585 Reluctant to inflict the penalty that had been threatened. 4. a. figurative. Of things, conditions: To give ominous indication of (impending evil); to presage, portend. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [verb (transitive)] > prefigure or foreshadow portendc1429 foreshadow1577 threatena1616 overbrood1818 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > portend, betoken [verb (transitive)] > evil threatena1616 exaugurate1652 a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 4 The skies looke grimly, And threaten present blusters. View more context for this quotation c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 188 Another pendent towre (like that at Pisa) always threatning ruine. 1818–20 E. Thompson Cullen's Nosologia (ed. 3) 247 A sense of hunger threatening syncope. 1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting viii. 339 The weather constantly threatens rain. intransitive for passive.1850 D. G. Mitchell Reveries of Bachelor 175 Hostilities would sometimes threaten between the school and village boys. b. with infinitive: To appear likely to do some evil. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > face danger [verb (intransitive)] > appear probable (to do or turn out evil) to make semblant1470 threaten1780 1780 Mirror No. 81. ⁋9 I am sometimes..frightened with dangers that threaten to diminish it [my estate]. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iv. 25 It threatens to be wet to-night. 1899 ‘A. Hope’ King's Mirror ix Age had not bent, but it threatened to break him. 1912 N.E.D. at Threaten Mod. The new drainage scheme threatens to be an expensive undertaking. 5. absol. or intransitive. To utter or use threats; to declare one's intention of injuring or punishing in order to influence. a. literal (absolute use of 2 or 3). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten [verb (intransitive)] threaten1297 threatc1300 menacec1384 meanc1425 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 10308 Nou sir clerc quaþ þe king ȝe mowe þretni ynou. c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. xviii. 86 Þou shalt not þreten euerlastingly. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 56 An eye like Mars, to threaten or command. View more context for this quotation 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 221 If too closely pursued, they [sc. snakes] hiss and threaten. 1864 in H. T. Ellacombe Church Bells Devon (1872) 267 Do not threaten,..never let down your dignity by one single word of violence. b. figurative (absolute use of 2c or 4). To portend evil. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > portend, betoken [verb (intransitive)] > evil threatena1616 augur1788 bode1870 a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 181 Though the Seas threaten they are mercifull. View more context for this quotation 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. ii. 6 A two-edg'd faulchion threaten'd by his side. 1793 A. Mann Let. 28 Oct. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 437 Our political horizon blackens and threatens more and more. 1912 N.E.D. at Threaten Mod. The weather threatens. 6. to threaten kindness (upon a person): apparently an altered form of the phrase to threap kindness upon at threap v. 4b. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxlvij The byshop of Rome sendeth his letters to the Swisses, & threatning vpon them kindnes, for the frenship that had ben betwene them & his predecessours. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 26^v Philautus..threateneth suche kindenesse at my handes, and such courtesie at yours, that hee shoulde accompte mee his wyfe before hee woe mee. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 144/1 The moonks being ouercome with the kings words, threatning kindnesse vpon them, fulfilled his request. 7. In weakened use: to express an intention to do something, not necessarily evil. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > intend [verb] > intend to do something > express intention to do something threaten1925 1925 Dial. Notes 5 344 Threaten, v.i., promise; as, he threatened to give me money. 1928 A. Huxley Let. 1 May (1969) 296 [He] was lunching here today and broached a notion about a preliminary limited edition... He threatens to come and talk to you about it. Derivatives ˈthreatenable adj. that may be threatened. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [adjective] > exposed to danger > vulnerable openeOE subjectc1384 pregnablec1475 opportunea1500 casuala1535 wide open?1544 obnoxious1572 assailable1589 liable1593 abnoxious1611 woundable1611 obnoxious1612 speeding1612 infectible1634 sufferable1651 attackable1656 vulnerable1678 prejudicial1682 threatenable1841 doable1849 infectable1860 1841–4 R. W. Emerson Exper. in Wks. (1906) I. 186 The chagrins which the bad heart gives off..take form..and threaten or insult whatever is threatenable and insultable in us. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.c1000
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