threatening
verbEtymology
From Middle English thretenyng, thretnynge, þretnynge, equivalent to threaten + -ing.
- inherited from thretenyng
Definitions
present participle and gerund of threaten
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.
Making threats, making statements about a willingness to cause harm.
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An act of threatening
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.
The neighborhood
- synonymminacious
- synonymmenacing
- synonymbaleful
- synonymthreatensome
- synonymthreatful
- neighborfrightening
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at threatening. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at threatening. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at threatening
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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