Threaten

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Old English thrēatnian ‘urge or induce, especially by using threats’, from thrēat (see threat).


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From Middle English þreaten or þreten, from Old English þrēatian.


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threaten (v.)

late 13c., "attempt to influence by menacing," from Old English þreatnian "to threaten" (see threat). Related: Threatened. Threatening in the sense of "portending no good" is recorded from 1520s.