different between threatening vs taxing
threatening
English
Alternative forms
- threatning (obsolete)
Etymology
From threaten +? -ing.
Pronunciation
- enPR: thr?t??n??, IPA(key): /????t.n?.??/
- Hyphenation: threat?en?ing
Verb
threatening
- present participle of threaten
Adjective
threatening (comparative more threatening, superlative most threatening)
- Presenting a threat; menacing; frightening.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
threatening (countable and uncountable, plural threatenings)
- 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 […]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts IV:
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taxing
English
Verb
taxing
- present participle of tax
Adjective
taxing (comparative more taxing, superlative most taxing)
- With respect to an experience: exhausting; draining.
- Burdensome, difficult.
Translations
Noun
taxing (countable and uncountable, plural taxings)
- The act of imposing a tax.
- January 1834, Horace Binney, Speech on the Question of the Removal of the Deposites
- Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City […]
- January 1834, Horace Binney, Speech on the Question of the Removal of the Deposites
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