Definitions for threats

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Spelling: [thret]
IPA: /θrɛt/

Threats is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 239 anagrams from letters in threats (aehrstt).

Definitions for threats

noun

  1. a declaration of an intention or determination to inflict punishment, injury, etc., in retaliation for, or conditionally upon, some action or course; menace:
  2. an indication or warning of probable trouble:
  3. a person or thing that threatens.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. Archaic. to threaten.

Origin of threats

before 900; (noun) Middle English threte, Old English thrēat pressure, oppression; cognate with Old Norse thraut hardship, bitter end; (v.) Middle English threten, Old English thrēatian to pr

Examples for threats

Then I shall have to put it out of your power to carry out your threat.

And you forget that—that devil—suppose she's as good as her threat?

"I'll have you before his honour," is the threat of an Irishman who hopes for partiality.

“The threat streams to U.S. interests and Western interests are off the chart,” he said.

But not even the threat of death can suppress the urge to live vicariously through Jack Dawson and James Bond.

But this war jumps from city to city, depending the threat of the day.

The Perfect Storm writer talks combat brotherhood and the threat posed by growing wealth inequality.

One threat which he used again and again, discovers all his world-blindness to me.

When communism was a threat, it was construed as a communist plot.

He did not seem particularly alarmed at her threat—or, perhaps, he did not care.

Word Value for threats
Scrable

9

Words with friends

8

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