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threated

threated is the simple past and past participle of threat.

Meaning of threat

Verb

threat (third-person singular simple present threats, present participle threating, simple past and past participle threated)

  1. (transitive) To press; urge; compel.
  2. (archaic, transitive) To threaten.
    • An hideous Geant horrible and hye, / That with his talnesse seemd to threat the skye […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. (intransitive) To use threats; act or speak menacingly; threaten.

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Questions about threated

What is threated the simple past and past participle of?
Threated is the simple past and past participle of threat.

Words near threated in the dictionary

  1. threasury
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  3. threat actor
  4. threat actors
  5. THREATCON
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  8. threatenable
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  10. threatened abortion
  11. threatened abortions

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