From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Threat \Threat\ (thr[e^]t), noun [AS. [thorn]re['a]t, akin to [=a][thorn]re['o]tan to vex, G. verdriessen, OHG. irdriozan, Icel. [thorn]rj[=o]ta to fail, want, lack, Goth. us[thorn]riutan to vex, to trouble, Russ. trudite to impose a task, irritate, vex, L. trudere to push. Cf. {Abstruse}, {Intrude}, {Obstrude}, {Protrude}.] The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation.
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Threat \Threat\, verb (used with an object) & i. [OE. [thorn]reten, AS. [thorn]re['a]tian. See {Threat}, noun] To threaten. [Obs. or Poetic] --Shak.
Of all his threating reck not a mite. --Chaucer.
Our dreaded admiral from far they threat. --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: something that is a source of danger; "earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan" [syn: {menace}]
2: a warning that something unpleasant is imminent; "they were under threat of arrest"
3: declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another; "his threat to kill me was quite explicit"
4: a person who inspires fear or dread; "he was the terror of the neighborhood" [syn: {terror}, {scourge}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "threat": admonishment, admonition, alarm, breakers ahead, cardhouse, cause for alarm, caution, caveat, commination, crisis, danger, dangerous ground, deterrent example, emergency, endangerment, example, final notice, final warning, foreboding, forewarning, gaping chasm, gathering clouds, hazard, hint, house of cards, imperilment, intimation, intimidation, jeopardy, lesson, menace, monition, moral, notice, notification, object lesson, omen, pass, peril, pinch, plight, portent, predicament, presage, quicksand, risk, rocks ahead, storm clouds, strait, thin ice, tip-off, ultimatum, verbum sapienti, warning, warning piece
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