To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. "Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name."
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"Threaten" Quotes from Famous Books — The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett — Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel — Considerations on Representative Government • John Stuart Mill — A Grammar of the English Tongue • Samuel Johnson — The Wars Between England and America • T. C. Smith |
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