"threaten" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

threaten verbo

threaten + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 123
threaten action • threaten security • threaten one's life • threaten people • threaten the stability • threaten species • threaten violence • ...
verbo + threaten
Kolokacji: 14
threaten after rejecting • begin threatening • keep threatening • continue to threaten • stop threatening • ...
threaten + preposición
Kolokacji: 24
threatened by • threaten with • threaten to • threaten against • threaten in • ...
threaten + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 52
seriously threaten • repeatedly threatened • once threaten • directly threaten • constantly threaten • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 10
(1) seriously, severely, gravely
Kolokacji: 3
3. gravely threatened = poważnie zagrozić gravely threatened
  • A long-lived, slow-growing species, they are gravely threatened by overfishing, habitat degradation and catastrophic natural events such as bushfires.
  • Personality wise, Jamie is very cowardly and often runs at the first sign of danger, only showing bravery when he or his friends are gravely threatened.
  • Were Pakistan and its nuclear weapons to fall under the control of Islamic fundamentalists, American security would be gravely threatened.
  • He contended that goals like universal access would be gravely threatened if the world went to Internet-based services that were unregulated.
  • The social fabric of our nation could be gravely threatened because they consistently put ideology over common sense.
  • Ayub himself "felt gravely threatened by Maudoodi".
  • The Vance-Owen peace plan for Bosnia seemed thereby gravely threatened.
  • (2) Meanwhile the Spartans at last prepared to defend their own position in Greece, which was so gravely threatened.
  • This unfortunate land is gravely threatened.
  • Stocks of tuna in the Mediterranean Sea are also gravely threatened.
(6) publicly, personally
Kolokacji: 2
(7) occasionally, frequently
Kolokacji: 2
(10) merely, simply
Kolokacji: 2

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