"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
  • North Carolina was not seriously threatened the rest of the way.
  • The area had been seriously threatened by erosion up until the early 1990s.
  • No force or combination of forces it knew could seriously threaten its race.
  • Never before had she thought her position as clan leader might be seriously threatened.
  • The fire reached within 220 yards of the plant, but never seriously threatened it.
  • Meanwhile the rear of the army had been seriously threatened.
  • The survival of the human race is being seriously threatened and we must find a common solution to the problem.
  • At that time, the security of the Cartel might be seriously threatened.
  • Our overseas markets are seriously threatened and we have only one case of it.
  • Grayson found himself seriously threatened for the first time in the game.
3. gravely threatened = poważnie zagrozić gravely threatened
(6) publicly, personally
Kolokacji: 2
(7) occasionally, frequently
Kolokacji: 2
(10) merely, simply
Kolokacji: 2

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