threatening

verboaggettivosostantivocorrente nei dialoghi

//ˈθɹɛtə.nɪŋ//
//ˈθɹɛt.nɪŋ//
//ˈθɹɛt.n̩.ɪŋ//
//ˈθɹɛʔ.n̩.ɪŋ//

Presenting a threat, posing a likely risk of harm.

verbo

1
Anche una forma di threatenpresent participle and gerund of threaten

Etimologia

From Middle English thretenyng, þreteninde, equivalent to threaten + -ing.

aggettivo

1
Presenting a threat, posing a likely risk of harm.
Never turn your back to someone who is displaying threatening behavior.
Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brovv, / And dart not ſcornefull glances from thoſe eies, / To vvound thy Lord, thy King, thy Gouernour.
2
Making threats, making statements about a willingness to cause harm.

sostantivo

1
An act of threatening; a threat.
And nowe lorde beholde their threatenyngꝭ / and graunte vnto thy ſervauntꝭ wyth all confydence to ſpeake thy worde.
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.

Etimologia

From Middle English thretenyng, thretnynge, þretnynge, equivalent to threaten + -ing.

Forme

plurale: threatenings
comparativo: more threatening
superlativo: most threatening

Threat · A surname.threaten · To make a threat against someone; to use threats.threatened · At risk of becoming endangered in the near future.

threatening · Presenting a threat, posing a likely risk of harm.

three · A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in…threesome · A group of three people or things.threshold · The lowermost part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a…

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