THREATENING


Meaning of THREATENING in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ θretənɪŋ ]

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

You can describe someone’s behaviour as threatening when you think that they are trying to harm you.

The police could have charged them with threatening behaviour...

ADJ : usu ADJ n

• threat‧en‧ing‧ly

‘This ain’t no affair of yours, boy!’ McClosky said threateningly.

ADV : usu ADV with v

see also threaten , life-threatening

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