Synonyms for threatened
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : thret-n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈθrɛt n |
Définition of threatened
Origin :- Old English þreatnian (see threat). Related: Threatened. Threatening in the sense of "portending no good" is recorded from 1520s.
- adj endangered
- It was sultry, and there was something in the atmosphere that at once threatened and soothed.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Mr. Lovelace's threatened vengeance is in return for threatened vengeance.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- In other words Mr. Gladstone was threatened with total blindness.
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
- You hear, brother, with what strange diseases he has threatened me.
- Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire
- It was refused, whereupon Morgan threatened that no quarter should be given.
- Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
- On enquiry, we learned these fellows had threatened to rob her shop.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- But then it occurred to me that there was a way of using the weapon which threatened, as a boomerang.
- Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
- Both of us early saw the danger which threatened the country.
- Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
- Its threatened evil may be changed into a national blessing.
- Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
- I told him of thy expected return, and threatened him with thy resentment.
- Extract from : « Calderon The Courtier » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Antonyms for threatened
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