"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
  • Since I was a child, those of my family have been constantly threatened with death.
  • For the next six years, our marriage was constantly threatened by his other women.
  • Its growth however has been constantly threatened by the size of the oil import bill.
  • They need to start talking about 27,000 individuals and the toll it takes on a person to feel constantly threatened.
  • He wrote in a time when his country was constantly threatened by Turkish invasion.
  • The storms that threatened constantly did not break, though the wind picked up.
  • She constantly threatens to move out of the house.
  • I was a misfit who felt constantly threatened by bigger kids.
  • These creatures constantly threatened to destroy the Earth every time they fought.
  • An unreliable car is only one of the problems that constantly threaten to come between Moore and her work.
(6) publicly, personally
Kolokacji: 2
(7) occasionally, frequently
Kolokacji: 2
(10) merely, simply
Kolokacji: 2

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