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threating

threating is the present participle and gerund 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 threating

What is threating the present participle and gerund of?
Threating is the present participle and gerund of threat.

Words near threating in the dictionary

  1. threatensome
  2. threatest
  3. threatful
  4. threatfully
  5. threatfulness
  6. threating
  7. threatless
  8. threatlessness
  9. threatmate
  10. threatmates
  11. threatned

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