What does threatened mean?
Definitions for threatened
threat·ened
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Princeton's WordNet
threatened(adj)
(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
threatened(Adjective)
At risk of becoming endangered in the near future.
threatened(Adjective)
Feeling insecure or vulnerable.
Webster Dictionary
Threatened
of Threaten
Freebase
Threatened
US federal protection designation = Threatened.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'threatened' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2747
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'threatened' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4431
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of threatened in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of threatened in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of threatened in a Sentence
Think about that. If another country threatened to wipe out an American town, we'd do everything in our power to protect ourselves, climate change poses the same threat, right now.
Even as archaeologists are making exciting new discoveries about this region – and even as Tribes and the American public speak out in overwhelming support of protecting this precious landscape – Chaco is being threatened by expanding energy development, including recently proposed leasing inside this long-standing buffer zone.
The purported rationale of such regulations is to protect small retail players who are seen to be threatened.
Well, I would say he's been threatened by the truth.
Last year, Martin County threatened to ruin our dream of owning and running a restaurant on our own piece of property, five hundred dollars a day would put me out of business in a week.
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