verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
aggressive/violent/threatening
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His behavior became increasingly violent.
an angry/threatening gesture
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One of the men made a threatening gesture, and I ran.
be threatened with extinction (= very likely to stop existing )
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Hundreds of species of birds are now threatened with extinction.
danger threatens (= seems likely )
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Most birds will warn other birds when danger threatens.
jeopardize/threaten the existence of sth (= make it likely that something will stop existing )
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The strike could jeopardize the existence of his company.
threaten sb with a knife
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The girls were threatened with a knife.
threaten sb's liberty
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The government should not be so strong that it threatens individual liberty.
threatened to engulf
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despair so great it threatened to engulf him
threatened with closure
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Several military bases are threatened with closure .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
seriously
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Many birds, small mammals and fish have become extinct or are seriously threatened .
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Indeed, the viability of the Department of Housing and Urban Development has been seriously threatened .
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Moktadir, who was seriously threatened by the neighbouring kingdoms of Navarre and Aragon, gladly accepted.
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Elias, has been seriously threatened , because of its provocative color.
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There are 6 agents within a mile of his shop on the Abingdon Road and another outlet would seriously threaten his business.
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With regard to the seriously threatened Engelmann oak in San Diego County, merely saving lane trees is not enough.
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Probably more so in fact, for all organisms are more seriously threatened by competition from their own species than from others.
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Not until the twentieth century did the increase in population force an uneconomic division of farms and seriously threaten Basque rural prosperity.
■ NOUN
action
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The company plans to dock the officers' pay and is threatening disciplinary action .
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After being pleasant about it for some months, I had finally threatened him with legal action .
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He resigned from the Conservatives after they threatened legal action over the loan.
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They will threaten legal action for nonpayment.
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The union is threatening further industrial action .
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That prompted college trustees last month to threaten legal action if the architect and construction manager did not help resolve the problems.
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The recipient might become worried if successive letters then come threatening that action will be taken to obtain the price from him.
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As a result he has been threatened with libel action and even physical violence.
closure
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But now Government cuts means the home is threatened with closure .
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It has been threatened with closure , water officials said.
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Two years ago the Cowley plant was threatened with closure .
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The method involved asking what users and non-users would pay to keep the centre open if it were threatened with closure .
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They linked up in a silent demonstration of support for the school which is threatened with closure .
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He has spoken up for them when their homes have been threatened with closure and voiced their opinions on Radio Cleveland.
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Since he opened in September 1999, he says he has been threatened with closure on several occasions.
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He began his statement by announcing that Chelsea's Stamford Bridge ground, which had been threatened with closure , was safe.
existence
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Deny or threaten it, and you deny and threaten some one's existence .
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Indeed, in the long term, provider networks may threaten the very existence of HMOs as they are now known.
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Wider reality would threaten their existence .
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In other words, failure on one new project could threaten the very existence of the company.
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The thought of our own guilt threatens our very existence .
extinction
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Large numbers of rare and beautiful Alpine plants are threatened with extinction .
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Several equally renowned eating places such as Drouant are also threatened with extinction .
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When this happens it can dramatically slash profits - and can even threaten a business with extinction .
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Most of this trade is legal and involves species not threatened with extinction , although conservationists feel better controls are needed.
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The large numbers of wild orchids being traded threatens some species with extinction .
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And these prized woods come from special trees, many of them threatened with extinction .
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There are between 80,000 and 100,000 species of trees, of which 8,000 are threatened with extinction .
government
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The expansion of citizen participation is greatly threatened today by government secrecy, industrial monopolies, and a closed media.
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Leading the rise were the prices of privatisation shares which would have been threatened by a Labour government .
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In 1995, Major again appeared to be a political goner when inner-party squabbling threatened to bring his government down.
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The crisis surrounding the tunnel threatens to embarrass the Government , which insisted it be financed entirely by the private sector.
job
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Untenured and part-time instructors are especially vulnerable, because low evaluation scores can threaten their jobs .
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Besides, how do you expect to get good people if you threaten their job security every 54 years? 2.
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The Shadow Agriculture Minister says privatisation would be a scandal and could threaten jobs in the timber industry.
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It's been claimed the cut in spending threatens up to 400 jobs .
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All three are threatening job cuts.
life
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Lohr also charged that Medtronic failed to warn her or her doctors that the device could experience life-threatening failure.
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In many cancers, such as skin cancer, the original tumour itself is not life-threatening .
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I have had my life threatened .
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They say the chance to turn their lives around is being threatened by cuts to the centre's funding.
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None of the injuries was life threatening .
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Yet the experience is unlikely to be life-threatening for the banks.
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The immune system withers under the viral attack, leaving the body extremely vulnerable to other painful and life-threatening diseases.
security
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It is received with fear; for it threatens that comforting security and certainty which hitherto have shaped our actions.
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Besides, how do you expect to get good people if you threaten their job security every 54 years? 2.
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And that threatened the security of a little boy racing across holiday meadows, laughing with happiness.
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The defendants were found guilty of plotting to overthrow the monarchy and threatening the security of the state.
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Does it enhance or threaten our security or is it of no consequence to us?
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Both have pursued strategies to prevent the domination of their respective continents by any state that could threaten their security .
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If it threatens our security we feel things like fear or anger.
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As in Out, the invasions operated by metaphor both subvert authority and threaten personal security .
stability
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To do so would have threatened the stability of Franco's position and was, therefore, out of the question.
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The nether side of meaning, the storehouse of representations that do not fit the current Symbolic order, threatens this stability .
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Unconstrained elite dissensus threatens political stability under certain specific conditions.
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Urban pressure for leisure access to the countryside also threatens the ecological stability of many areas.
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It is not your job to worry about whether you threaten the stability of the world economy.
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Walesa's critics had accused him of dangerous populism which threatened political and economic stability .
violence
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No one should be subjected to verbal harassment, just as no one should be threatened with physical violence .
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In general, elite settlements stem from long periods of conflict and crises that threaten to rekindle widespread violence .
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Unlawful violence A person who threatens lawful violence can not be convicted under this section.
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Several vessels have already travelled to the area to help people threatened by the violence .
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Once Jonadab had threatened physical violence , the son realised that he was more than a match for his ageing parent.
■ VERB
feel
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I felt threatened by him because I used to play up front, so I decided to show him who was boss.
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These young men do not feel threatened at work.
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However, when both have felt threatened by developments in the Middle East they have demonstrated their ability to work together.
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Arancibia said he punched the teen because he felt threatened .
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They feel threatened by the two alternative prospects - move or take redundancy.
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He will sense her restlessness and feel threatened .
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For example, the salesforce may feel threatened by a proposal for a web-based sales site.
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Those who feel threatened band together.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A severe drought is threatening the rice crop.
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According to some scientists, global warming threatens the survival of the whole human race.
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After threatening the manager with a knife, he stole £300 and ran off.
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By August, it was clear that the volcano could threaten the whole island.
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Every time we have a quarrel, she threatens to leave me.
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I was threatened with jail if I published the story.
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Illegal hunting threatens the survival of the African Elephant.
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Our rainforests are being threatened with destruction, and the consequences will be severe.
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Pollution is threatening the marine life in the bay.
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Somalia was again crippled by a drought that threatened to kill hundreds of thousands more.
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The dispute threatened to damage East-West relations.
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Then he started threatening me and saying that my family might get hurt.
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When they found out he was an American, the soldiers threatened to kill him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All liberties, in fact, threaten each other: one limits another, and later succumbs to a further rival.
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All this is supposed to guarantee a sense of safety, but after Mr Safra's death, the image is threatened.
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But one night Hilda drowned herself in the lake, just as she had threatened to do.
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Flowers made an excellent save from Roy Keane three minutes later as United threatened to record a big win.
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The February attack could mark a change of tactics which will really threaten the regime if there is an escalation.
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The unions threatened a further general strike on Aug. 22-23 if basic food subsidies and wages were not increased.
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When Rose was pregnant, Steve threatened to call the poor child after the book's narrator, Ishmael!