threaten
English
/ˈθɹɛt.n̩/
verb
Definitions
- To make a threat against someone; to use threats.
- To menace, or be dangerous.
- To portend, or give a warning of.
- (figuratively) To be close to equaling or surpassing (a record, etc.)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English þreaten inherited from Old English þrēatian (threaten, push, correct, repress, press, oppress) root from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (push, harass, thrust, press, squeeze, crush).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*trewd-
Gloss
push, harass, thrust, press, squeeze, crush
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- intrude English
- intruder English
- intrusion English
- intrusive English
- intrusively English
- intrusiveness English
- nonthreatening English
- obtrusively English
- obtrusiveness English
- protrudable English
- protrude English
- protrusion English
- retrude English
- threatenable English
- threatener English
- threatenest English
- threateneth English
- threatening English
- threateningly English
- threateningness English
- unthreatenable English
- unthreatening English
- abstrudo Latin
- abstrusio Latin
- abstrusus Latin
- abstrūdō Latin
- abstrūsus Latin
- obtrudo Latin
- obtrūdō Latin
- obtrūsus Latin
- protrudo Latin
- retrudo Latin
- *ter- Proto-Indo-European
- *terkʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *trewd- Proto-Indo-European
- *twerḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *firi- Proto-Germanic
- *þrautaz Proto-Germanic
- *þreutaną Proto-Germanic
- *þrustijaną Proto-Germanic
- *þrūstijaną Proto-Germanic
- þrēatian Old English
- þreaten Middle English
- þrúga Old Norse
- true Danish
- trussel Danish
- *trudъ Proto-Slavic
- verdriet Middle Dutch
- troit Old Irish
- vordrēten Middle Low German
- *troudō Proto-Italic
- *treuδ- Proto-Albanian
- *θrusta- Proto-Iranian