Threat vs Threap - What's the difference?
threat | threap |
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.
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, 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.
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.
As nouns the difference between threat and threap
is that threat is an expression of intent to injure or punish another while threap is an altercation, quarrel, argument.As verbs the difference between threat and threap
is that threat is to press; urge; compel while threap is to scold, rebuke.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.
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic wordsthreap
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)