different between threatening vs raging

English

Alternative forms

• threatning (obsolete)

Etymology

From threaten +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• enPR: thr?t??n??, IPA^(key): /????t.n?.??/
• Hyphenation: threat?en?ing

Verb

threatening

1. present participle of threaten

Adjective

threatening (comparative more threatening, superlative most threatening)

1. Presenting a threat; menacing; frightening.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

threatening (countable and uncountable, plural threatenings)

1. 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.

   • 1859-1895, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round

     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 […]

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?d???/

• Rhymes: -e?d???

Verb

raging

1. present participle of rage

Adjective

raging (comparative more raging, superlative most raging)

1. Volatile, very active or unpredictable.

2. (of a person) In a state of rage; in a state of extreme, often uncontrollable, anger.

Translations

Noun

raging (plural ragings)

1. A display of rage.
   • 1813, Patrick Brontë, The Rural Minstrel

     To quell the ragings of his Father's ire, / And save a guilty world from quenchless fire!

Anagrams

• Riggan, gringa