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threatest

threatest is the second-person singular simple present indicative 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.

See all 7 meanings of threat

Origin of threatest

From threat + -est.

Questions about threatest

What is threatest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Threatest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of threat.

Words near threatest in the dictionary

  1. threateningly
  2. threateningness
  3. threatenings
  4. threatens
  5. threatensome
  6. threatest
  7. threatful
  8. threatfully
  9. threatfulness
  10. threating
  11. threatless

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