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Princeton's WordNet

  1. threatenedadjective

    (of flora or fauna) likely in the near future to become endangered

    "the spotted owl is a threatened species, not yet an endangered one"

Wiktionary

  1. threatenedadjective

    At risk of becoming endangered in the near future.

  2. threatenedadjective

    Feeling insecure or vulnerable.

Wikipedia

  1. threatened

    Threatened species are any species (including animals, plants and fungi) which are vulnerable to extinction in the near future. Species that are threatened are sometimes characterised by the population dynamics measure of critical depensation, a mathematical measure of biomass related to population growth rate. This quantitative metric is one method of evaluating the degree of endangerment.

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  1. threatened

    Threatened refers to a person, animal, plant, or even environment that is at risk, endangered, or in some kind of danger from potential harm or adverse effect. It can also relate to a feeling of being vulnerable to emotional or physical danger or harm. In biology and ecology, "threatened" is a term used to describe species that are likely to become endangered in the near future.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Threatened

    of Threaten

Wikidata

  1. Threatened

    US federal protection designation = Threatened.

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'threatened' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2747

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'threatened' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4431

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of threatened in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of threatened in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of threatened in a Sentence

  1. Adrian LeBaron:

    Life isn't life if you're being threatened. My message to the world and to my children is that you have to fight to know that you're free.

  2. Edmund Burke:

    I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

  3. Ralf Herrenbrueck:

    They threatened that they would do something if this didn't change and when there was no warm food at lunchtime again on Tuesday, the arson happened.

  4. Rashad Robinson:

    Facebooks governance structure is a threat to the civil rights of its Black users and to the financial interests of its shareholders, lasting change to address the misinformation, discrimination, violent movements and data breaches that put users, especially Black users, at risk cannot be subject to the whims of a single person....Shareholder value is threatened by the companys failure to make fixing civil rights violations an operational priority.

  5. Guy Keltner:

    We always take care of the folks in our midst and sort of never feel threatened by these sorts of things, i have a crew that I trust. We hire folks that we trust. We tend to have a very alert staff and are constantly in communication. And stage safety is always a priority.

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