Definition of Threat

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Definition of Threat
	Threat The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation. To threaten. Related Definitions: An, Another, Come, Declaration, Denunciation, Expression, Evil, Inflict, Injury, Intention, Loss, Menace, Of, On, Or, Pain, The, Threaten, Threatening, To

Threat Quotations

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
Barack Obama

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
Barack Obama

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.
Barack Obama

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Ayn Rand

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.
Edward Kennedy

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.
Kurt Cobain

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Leo Tolstoy

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
Douglas MacArthur

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
George W. Bush

Threat Translations

threat in Afrikaans is dreigement, bedreiging
threat in Danish is trussel
threat in Dutch is bedreiging, dreigement, dreiging
threat in French is menace
threat in German is Drohung, Bedrohung, drohen, Drohung
threat in Italian is minaccia
threat in Spanish is amagar, amago, amenaza
threat in Swedish is hotelse, hot

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