Threat - a noun The storm is a threat. Threaten - verb (present) The storm threatens the crops. Do not threaten me. Threatened - verb past tense The storm threatened the crops. This guy should be fired. He threatened me yesterday. They threatened me with dismissal yesterday. . Theatened - adjective The storm theatened the crops. The threatened crops were harvested early to save something of the farm. The crops further South were not in the storm's path and not threatened by it. . He threatened me yeaterday. I felt threatned. I felt threatned by him.