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threatened in English:

1. with


Tom flirted with Mary.
With the approach of Christmas, business improved somewhat.
Is there any problem with feeding my dog ice cream?
I have a lot of friends who are native speakers, so I've had a lot of experience speaking with native speakers.
I watched the film named "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" with my girlfriend yesterday. She was very afraid.
It turns out that that house is infested with garter snakes. They're everywhere.
A fat white cat sat on a wall and watched the two of them with sleepy eyes.
Everything accomplished starts with the dream of it, is a saying we all know to be true.
If God is with us, then who can be against us?
Our city is rather small in comparison with Tokyo.
I think it's a shame that some foreign language teachers were able to graduate from college without ever having studied with a native speaker.
Tom couldn't go to Boston with us because he didn't have enough money.
The purpose of advertising is to familiarize consumers with the name of a product.
Tom is good with his hands and has built many interesting things.
I'm busy with writing letters and giving speeches.

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

prepositions sritions

2. seriously threatened



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

Kolokacje / Collocations - common adverb + adjecti...

3. 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".

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

Word Formation (Year 3)

4. to do


What are you planning to do now?
You need to do it.
to do the report
I like to do cleaning in the cellar.
Stop telling me what to do.

English word "threatened"(to do) occurs in sets:

special introductory verbs