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life-threat·en·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dangerous, grave, grievous, serious, severe, life-threateningadjective

    causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

    "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease"

Wiktionary

  1. life-threateningadjective

    Used to describe something that endangers the continued life of the subject.

    The life-threatening illness caused him to be rushed to the hospital, where doctors worked around the clock to save his life.

ChatGPT

  1. life-threatening

    Life-threatening pertains to a situation, condition, or illness that has the potential to cause death or poses a severe risk to an individual's life.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of life-threatening in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of life-threatening in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of life-threatening in a Sentence

  1. Human Rights Campaign:

    We have been urging Google to remove this app because it is life-threatening to LGBTQ youth and also clearly violates the companys own standards, amazon, Apple and Microsoft have taken action to remove the app from their platforms, but so far Google has refused despite our warnings about the dangers.

  2. Ravindra Gupta:

    It is important to note that this curative treatment is high-risk, and only used as a last resort for patients with HIV who also have life-threatening haematological malignancies, therefore, this is not a treatment that would be offered widely to patients with HIV who are on successful antiretroviral treatment.

  3. Whistler family:

    Ella Whistler suffered very serious, life-threatening injuries from being shot 7 times in the face, neck, hand, and upper chest area, ella Whistler underwent emergency, life-saving surgery after being airlifted … and Ella Whistler injuries include collapsed lungs ; a broken jaw, clavicle, multiple neck vertebras, and ribs ; a severed vertebral vein ; significant nerve damage ; and numerous related injuries.

  4. Jen Psaki:

    I think what the decisions are, that the social media platforms need to make, is how they address the disinformation, misinformation, especially related to life-threatening issues like COVID-19 and vaccinations that continue to proliferate on their platforms.

  5. David Kester:

    I believe many of my customers, who were the physicians and nurses treating patients with life-threatening diseases, did not fully understand the relationships between the specialty pharmacies and Novartis.


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