"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
8. most threatened = najbardziej zagrozić most threatened
9. further threaten = ponadto zagroź further threaten
10. eventually threaten = ostatecznie zagroź eventually threaten
12. later threaten = później zagroź later threaten
13. initially threaten = początkowo zagroź initially threaten
15. suddenly threaten = nagle zagroź suddenly threaten
16. earlier threatened = wcześniej zagrozić earlier threatened
17. highly threatened = bardzo zagrozić highly threatened
18. somehow threaten = jakoś zagroź somehow threaten
21. truly threatened = naprawdę zagrozić truly threatened
23. federally threatened = na szczeblu federalnym zagrozić federally threatened
24. critically threatened = krytycznie zagrozić critically threatened
25. credibly threaten = wiarygodnie grozić credibly threaten
  • Saddam will credibly threaten, if we do, to take out a major U.S. city in a germ attack.
  • But the Europeans are not good at credibly threatening force.
  • The deterrent logic required the ability to credibly threaten the destruction of the Soviet capital and other major cities.
  • But legalisms aside, it was his failure to apply pressure to our allies to credibly threaten the Serbs that permitted ethnic cleansing.
  • This could happen only because the government of Nelson Mandela could credibly threaten the old apartheid killers with real jail time if they did not talk.
  • The United States could credibly threaten them not only with the loss of power, but with dispossession.
  • Saddam Hussein is producing his anthrax weapon for a clear purpose: to credibly threaten us with its use.
  • "The Kremlin has to credibly threaten to bankrupt the company, in order to create an incentive for Khodorkovsky to negotiate."
  • By 1992 Mr. Bush will no longer be able to credibly threaten employing force.
  • If we keep our weapons, we can still credibly threaten massive retaliation if someone threatens us.
26. equally threaten = równo zagroź equally threaten
(6) publicly, personally
Kolokacji: 2
(7) occasionally, frequently
Kolokacji: 2
(10) merely, simply
Kolokacji: 2

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