Threat vs Waning - What's the difference?
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An expression of intent to injure or punish another.
* (William Shakespeare)
An indication of imminent danger.
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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.
Becoming weaker or smaller.
Especially of the lunar phase as it shrinks when viewed from the Earth.
The fact or act of becoming less or less intense.
The fact or act of becoming smaller.
* Bishop Hall
As nouns the difference between threat and waning
is that threat is an expression of intent to injure or punish another while waning is the fact or act of becoming less or less intense.As verbs the difference between threat and waning
is that threat is (label) to press; urge; compel while waning is .As an adjective waning is
becoming weaker or smaller.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 wordswaning
English
Adjective
(-)- his waning strength
- the waning moon
Noun
(en noun)- the waning of her energy
- This earthly moon, the Church, hath fulls and wanings , and sometimes her eclipses.