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Threatening vs Telling - What's the difference?

threatening | telling |

As verbs the difference between threatening and telling

is that threatening is while telling is .

As adjectives the difference between threatening and telling

is that threatening is presenting a threat; menacing; frightening while telling is having force.

As nouns the difference between threatening and telling

is that threatening is an act of threatening; a threat while telling is the act of narration.

threatening

English

Alternative forms

* threatning (obsolete)

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Presenting a threat; menacing; frightening.

    • Derived terms

    * life-threatening * nonthreatening, non-threatening * threateningly * threateningness * unthreatening

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of threatening; a threat.
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts IV:
    • And nowe lorde beholde their threatenynges , and graunte unto thy servauntes wyth all confydence to speake thy worde.
  • * Charles Dickens, Pincher Astray
    • The butcher's boy — a fierce and beefy youth, who openly defied the dog, and waved him off with hurlings of his basket and threatenings of his feet, accompanied by growls of "Git out, yer beast!" — now entered silently

    telling

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • having force
  • revealing information
  • * '>citation
  • serving to convince

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of narration.
  • The disclosure of information.
  • (archaic) Counting, numbering.

    • Anagrams

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