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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
threat/θret/

▶noun

1 a statement of an intention to inflict injury, damage, or other hostile action as retribution.
■ Law a menace of bodily harm, such as may restrain a person's freedom of action.

2 a person or thing likely to cause damage or danger.
■ the possibility of trouble or danger.

– origin OE thrēat ‘oppression’, of Gmc origin.

'threat' also found in these Oxford entries:

autotomy - brandish - censor - countermeasure - dispose - eclampsia - else - fear - force - gunboat diplomacy - gut - hold - hold-up - knifepoint - menace - minatory - oblique - penalty - puff adder - rob - sabre-rattling - see - stick - terror - thief - threaten - trick - veil - witch-hunt - yellow

Forum discussions with the word(s) "threat" in the title:

"Flames forth his threat"
"He's no threat to either of us."
a threat in?
A threat to - A threat for
as great a threat to global economic stability as a new
behind the threat
Bomb threat/bomb scare
by 'dangling' the threat of...
Climate change poses threat to colombian coast
could be a threat to
dred con delta [threat con delta]
if the existence of an imminent threat
menace vs threat
menace\threat
Merdine talked tough ... [,] but was never a threat .... (comma?)
soft threat
square up to a threat
terrorist threat 'last fall'
the meaning of "the exaggerated threat"
the threat of death
They no longer represented a threat as they once had.
threat to （?）US or other nations [should have 'the'?]
threat/intimidation
triple-threat Peter
under increasing threat
under the threat of
view them as really at core of the terrorist threat
Yet it is probably _____ a threat/ no more than Vs not more than

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