B1verb · transitive · common

threat

threat · threats · threated · threating

To press; urge; compelTo press; urge; compel.

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/θɹɛt/

» We think there is still a threat.

Ми вважаємо, що й досі існує загроза.

Meaning

3 senses

(transitive)To press; urge; compel.
(intransitive)To use threats; act or speak menacingly; threaten.
(archaic, transitive)To threaten.

Examples

428 sentences

We think there is still a threat.
Ми вважаємо, що й досі існує загроза.
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We think that there is still a threat.
Ми вважаємо, що й досі існує загроза.
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There is a threat of a storm.
Є небезпека шторму.
ruЕсть опасность шторма.
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Is that a threat?
Це погроза?
ruЭто угроза?
deIst das eine Drohung?
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They're not a threat.
Вони не є загрозою.
ruОни не представляют угрозы.
deDie sind keine Bedrohung.
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Origin

From Middle English threten, from Old English þrēatian (“to press, oppress, repress, corre

From Middle English threten, from Old English þrēatian (“to press, oppress, repress, correct, threaten”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (“to squeeze, push, press”). Cognate with Scots threit (“to threaten”), Dutch verdrieten (“to sadden, displease”), Middle Low German drēten (“to threaten”), German verdrießen (“to bother, vex”), Faroese tróta (“to run out”), Icelandic þrjóta (“to run out, end”), Norwegian tryte (“to run out, end”), Swedish tryda (“to run out”), Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌸𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍄𐌰𐌽 (usþriutan, “to harass, torment”), Latin trūdō (“to push”), Albanian ndrydh (“to sprain, supress, withdraw”), Belarusian трудзіць (trudzicʹ, “to burden, tire”), Bulgarian тру̀дя (trùdja, “to work”), Czech trudit (“to toil, worry”), Polish trudzić (“to toil, worry”), Russian труди́ть (trudítʹ, “to burden, tire”), Serbo-Croatian trúditi (“to try, make and effot”), Ukrainian труди́ти (trudýty, “to toil, tire”).

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Forms

threats, threating, threated, threated

Base form	threat · to threat
3rd person singular	threats
Present participle	threating
Past simple	threated
Past participle	threated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, they	threat
he, she, it	threats

Past simpleLesson

all persons

threated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, they	have threated
he, she, it	has threated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all persons

will threat

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle

Collocations

4 patterns

received death threats
death threats
isn't a threat
your threats don't