"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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 28
(2) security, stability, peace
Kolokacji: 3
(5) violence, force, consequence
Kolokacji: 3
(10) sanction, resignation, message
Kolokacji: 3
(12) ability, power, plan, vision
Kolokacji: 4
(13) safety, area
Kolokacji: 2
(14) suicide, layoff
Kolokacji: 2
(16) child, creator, son
Kolokacji: 3
(17) future, others
Kolokacji: 2
(19) rain, journalist, snow
Kolokacji: 3
(21) letter, civilization
Kolokacji: 2
1. threaten letters = zagroź listom threaten letters
2. threaten civilization = zagroź cywilizacji threaten civilization
  • From humanists we learned that science threatens civilization.
  • Thus is launched Galaxy Force, to strike a hammer blow against the forces threatening civilization.
  • And we will not allow any terrorist or tyrant to threaten civilization with weapons of mass murder.
  • "We will not allow any terrorist or tyrant to threaten civilization with weapons of mass murder," Mr. Bush said.
  • While none of these scenarios are likely to destroy humanity completely, they could regionally threaten civilization.
  • Pacifists needed no persuading that fascism threatened civilization.
  • Today, it is again a name that encompasses both the dark forces that threaten "civilization" and the fears they arouse.
  • Together, they hope to conquer the dragon and the wicked vice-principal who threaten civilization.
  • Sinister aliens and giant monsters constantly threaten civilization during this period.
  • The Gulf Stream has also ceased to exist, an event that may initiate a global climate change that would threaten human civilization.
(23) democracy, value
Kolokacji: 2
(24) wife, bird
Kolokacji: 2
(25) thousands, millions
Kolokacji: 2
(26) punishment, fines, penalty
Kolokacji: 3
(27) secession, withdrawal
Kolokacji: 2
(28) Microsoft
Kolokacji: 1
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 • ...

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