Threaped vs Threated - What's the difference?
threaped | threated |
(threap)
to scold, rebuke
to argue, bicker
* Percy's Reliques
to call, to name
to cozen or cheat
To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction.
To beat or thrash.
(threat)
An expression of intent to injure or punish another.
* (William Shakespeare)
An indication of imminent danger.
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, title= A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 2, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
, title= (label) To press; urge; compel.
(archaic) To threaten.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vii:
* 1599 , , V. i. 37:
(label) To use threats; act or speak menacingly; threaten.
As verbs the difference between threaped and threated
is that threaped is (threap) while threated is (threat).threaped
English
Verb
(head)threap
English
Alternative forms
* threip * threpeVerb
(en verb)- It's not for a man with a woman to threap .
- (Halliwell)
- He threaped me down that it was so.
- (Robert Burns)
- (Halliwell)
Derived terms
* threaperAnagrams
*threated
English
Verb
(head)threat
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), .Noun
(en noun)- There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats .
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- An hideous Geant horrible and hye, / That with his talnesse seemd to threat the skye
- O yes, and soundless too; / For you have stolen their buzzing, Antony, / And very wisely threat before you sting.