English English Dictionary

threat in English:

1. the possibility that something very bad will happen

2. danger

There's danger that the levee will break. We have to evacuate immediately.

The possibility of suffering harm or injury. A person or thing that is likely to cause harm or injury. Drought is a danger.

Danger ahead.

It is strange that a cameraman heading for a war-zone should not know about the danger of unexploded shells. The newspaper company is being negligent in its training.

I'd stop worrying about it and take some action. The anxiety that comes from doing nothing is worse than any danger you might face.

Many of the world's seven thousand or so languages are spoken only by handfuls of living people and are in danger of extinction.

If the demolition of buildings is uncontrolled, a fine city is in danger of becoming nothing more than a concrete jungle.

According to pernickety moderators, non-sentences constitute a mortal danger to Tatoeba.

There's also the danger of unexploded bombs, so they reported it to the police and the area was taped off to keep people out.

The danger of AIDS came home to me when I saw a documentary film on it last night.

On his return the chaste caresses of his wife amply recompenced the warrior for the fatigues he had undergone and for the danger which he had been exposed.

Are you creating for us a future world where there is a greater danger of skin cancer, weakened bodies, less food and fewer plants and animals?

If you're with me as a staff officer then I need you to bring a sense of danger with you to your work.

English word "threat"(danger) occurs in sets:

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3. a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger

English word "threat"(a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger) occurs in sets:

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4. a warning that one may do harm

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5. threat

It's not a threat.

He sees any easiness as a threat to his masculinity, so he always starts games on hard mode and ends up stuck on the first level for days.

There are so many anti-smoking campaigns these days; maybe smoking really is a threat to the public order.

But the Nobel Committee said that poverty was a threat to world peace, and Mother Teresa worked against poverty.

In Ankara, I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security.

Today young people find themselves, through no fault of their own, living in a world torn by international bitterness and the threat of nuclear destruction.

We must also threaten them with changing the bottom-down to bottom-up approach.

threat = something which can put us in danger

Professor Hawking has said recently that efforts to create thinking machines are a threat to our existence. A threat means something which can put us in danger.

But we all face risks every day by eating, drinking, walking and driving – simply going about our daily lives carries all sorts of unseen threats.

What do we mean by empty threats? By empty threats we mean something that won't really be done.

a life-threatening situation

Even a million Dothraki are no threat to the realm, as long as they remain on the other side of the Narrow Sea.

The team we're playing this weekend is a bit of a threat, but I'm sure we can beat them.

Christopher Columbus's infinite accomplishments are a threat to Google, who do not know how to index infinity when someone searches for "Christopher Columbus".

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6. threatened

My brother was threatened by someone waving a gun.

Even poisonous snakes will only attack if they feel threatened.

In many places, nature is threatened by human activity.

They did not like the way he threatened his opponents.

They robbed stores and threatened public safety.

Ithreatened her...

Management has threatened to lock out the workforce if they do not accept the proposed changes.

She shouted and threatened a policeman by brandishing a knife.

He was in dead earnest when he threatened to call the police.

Rev. King and his supporters were threatened.

You don't have to get so threatened.

Employees threatened a strike to protect worker benefits.

When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness, and a democracy was saved. Yes, we can.

Many people with low confidence levels actually feel threatened by people who appear to be successful and so choose to spend time with people who are in an even worse situation than themselves.

Physical closeness made him feel threatened, so his girlfriend took things very, very slow.

English word "threat"(threatened) occurs in sets:

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7. a suggestion that something unpleasant or violent will happen

8. they say they would kill you or hurt you

9. noun suggestion of danger

10. promise to hurt

11. a situation that could cause harm or danger

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12. someone or something that is regarded as a possible danger

13. risk

At this rate, the risk is high that our country's competitive position will drop even further.

I know that interest rates are fixed in accordance to the borrower's business risk.

at risk

It's a job worth doing, but if I think about the working hours and the risk ... I could be onto a real losing proposition here.

Risk all and gain all.

Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, to risk their lives for us.

Calculating the risk which is involved in the event of failure, he demanded a show-down with the other party.

His style (if you were to call it that) was excessively (though I run the risk of hypocrisy) parenthetical (pardon the pun).

Risk money refers to funds placed in investments that seek high-return, although high-risk, investments.

However, it seems that just because it's a 'low risk day' doesn't mean that you won't get pregnant from intravaginal ejaculation.

I will risk drinking tea in Mrs Ewelina's house. Maybe I'll survive.

Some people's fear of flying is far out of proportion to the actual risk it involves.

Holding the Olympics where there's severe atmospheric pollution gives rise to a great risk for athletes.

Causing competitors to fail, obtaining confidential information, something that big business just can't do without - high risk but at the same time high return work.

Do you think she would risk her life... her son's life... if she wasn't certain her husband was murdered?