Word Finder - threatened

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To make a threat against someone; to use threats.

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He threatened me with a knife.

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To menace, or be dangerous.

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The rocks threatened the ship's survival.

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To portend, or give a warning of.

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The black clouds threatened heavy rain.

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To be close to equaling or surpassing (a record, etc.)

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(of a plant or animal) At risk of becoming endangered in the near future.

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Feeling insecure or vulnerable.

Sadness threatened to overwhelm him.

She threatened to scratch my eyes out if I touched her.

She was his only relief, and the visions threatened to consume her.

Has he threatened you?

If he had simply ignored her, she might have been able to get her emotions under control, but now a sob threatened so convincingly that she was afraid to breathe.

I think I was just threatened, but I'm not sure why.

Humans should not feel threatened in any way by this, and yet it still makes some people defensive and uncomfortable.

Carmen, if you ever feel threatened by him, get away from him as fast as you can – imagined or not.

If one of us is threatened, we can't give up the others if we don't know where they went.

The pain threatened to cripple him again.

A long time ago, there was a battle so horrible it threatened to destroy the whole universe.

There was firmness in his tone that threatened to pull her happiness down a notch.

When she came back, they felt threatened, so they hadn't even thought of her reasons.

He Traveled to them, wanting to blow off some of the emotional build-up and kill those that threatened everyone around him.

Her raw sweetness threatened his resolve to keep his distance.

A look of incredulity crossed her features, and he doubted any army-type had ever threatened one of the elite class member forces.

In spite of her resolve to purge the fear from the living room, it increased until it threatened to take over the entire house.

Her voice, so soft it skimmed his skin, threatened to ensnare him.

She threatened to reveal the secret of his gem to his enemies, a secret recently spilled.

As a mark of the commander-in-chief's special favor he was sent with the news of this victory to the Austrian court, now no longer at Vienna (which was threatened by the French) but at Brunn.

If she had felt the least bit threatened, it would have been easy enough to jump out of the truck.

Her lip quivered and a sob threatened to choke off her voice.

Tears of fury threatened to spill, but she could not, would not let Sirian see her weakness!

If Carmen hadn't felt so threatened by him, she would have asked him to ride up to the mountain with her.

Poor, distracted, threatened on occasion by the Celts on her flank and rear, anglicized Scotland preferred her poverty with independence, to the prosperity and peace which England would have given, if unresisted, but never could impose by war.

Accused of peculation, he was threatened with imprisonment unless he paid a fine of 10o,000 pieces of gold.

A much greater danger now threatened Mansur.

Mansur discovered this in the same year in which he died, and threatened him with death unless he should pay to the treasury three millions of dirhems within three days.

The government of Bagdad resolved to crush the Carmathians, but a large army was utterly defeated by Abu Tahir in 315 (927), and Bagdad was seriously threatened.

The Hamdanid prince of Mosul, who began to think his possessions threatened by Mo'izz addaula, tried without success to wrest Bagdad from him, and was obliged to submit to the payment of tribute.

They all gazed with the same dissatisfied and inquiring expression at this stout man in a white hat, who for some unknown reason threatened to trample them under his horse's hoofs.

He carefully worked the ATV down a steep washed out trail that threatened to overturn the vehicle several times.

Grief threatened to consume them, and there would be no reprieve from their anguish.

One party threatened to return to Romanism; another threatened to sacrifice the independence of Geneva and submit to Berne.

The disaffected in Egypt kept up communications with the Fatimites, against whom the Ikshid collected a vast army, which, however, had first to be employed in resisting an invasion of Egypt threatened by Ibn Raiq, an adventurer who had seized Syria; after an indecisive engagement at LajUn the Ikshid decided to make peace with Ibn Raiq, undertaking to pay him tribute.

The affair would not have gone on so smoothly, had not the opportune defection of the Arabians put a stop to the inward schism which threatened.

Azraq, after whom they were called also Azraqites, threatened even the city itself, when Mohallab b.

As the rebellion threatened to spread far and wide, Yazid II.

The Carmathians drove the Fatimites out of Syria, and threatened Egypt, but, notwithstanding their intrepidity, they were not able to cope with their powerful rival, who, however, in his turn could not bring them to submission.

A few days previously Cadorna had modified the system of commands in the threatened sector.

The Volturno Bde., of the 10th Div., which was on its way to reinforce another threatened sector, was diverted to the more critical point.

On May r8 the Austrian attacks, supported by very violent artillery fire, broke the front of the Ancona Bde., and the rest of the 35th Div., threatened on the flank, withdrew during the night.

The crisis is pronounced by Suetonius to have been more serious than any which had confronted Rome since the Hannibalic war, for it was not merely the loss of a province but the invasion of Italy that was threatened, and Augustus openly declared in the senate that the insurgents might be before Rome in ten days.

Philip had reduced to a mere remnant the formidable continental empire of the Angevins, which had threatened the existence of the Capetian monarchy.

Salmon, once threatened with extinction, have been saved, maintained in good supply, and indeed have probably regained their pristine abundance.

Sheep then became of primary importance, until the increase of the flocks threatened ranges and forests with destruction.

Many interior towns lost half their population and some virtually all their population as a result of this emigration; and it precipitated a real estate crash in San Francisco that threatened temporary ruin.

The citizens on their part clung to this connexion and made use of it whenever their independence was threatened by their bishops, who strongly inclined to consider themselves lords of their cathedral cities, much as if these had been built on church-lands.

Abroad, where the Bill made McKinley's name known everywhere, there was bitter opposition to it and reprisals were threatened by several European states.

In 1867 he attempted unsuccessfully to form a cabinet sufficiently strong to prevent the threatened Garibaldian incursion into the papal states, and two years later failed in a similar attempt, through disagreement with Lanza concerning the army estimates.