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threatened 音標拼音: [θr'ɛtənd] threatened adj 1: ( of flora or fauna) likely in the near future to become endangered; " the spotted owl is a threatened species, not yet an endangered one" Threaten \ Threat" en\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Threatened}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Threatening}.] [ OE. [ thorn] retenen. See { Threat}, v. t.] 1. To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. [ 1913 Webster] Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. -- Acts iv. 17. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To exhibit the appearance of ( something evil or unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] The skies look grimly And threaten present blusters. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: To menace. Usage: { Threaten}, { Menace}. Threaten is Anglo- Saxon, and menace is Latin. As often happens, the former is the more familiar term; the latter is more employed in formal style. We are threatened with a drought; the country is menaced with war. [ 1913 Webster] By turns put on the suppliant and the lord: Threatened this moment, and the next implored. -- Prior. [ 1913 Webster] Of the sharp ax Regardless, that o' er his devoted head Hangs menacing. -- Somerville. [ 1913 Webster] 25 Moby Thesaurus words for " threatened": augured, between two fires, cornered, endangered, foreshadowed, foreshown, foretokened, imperiled, in a predicament, in danger, in desperate case, in extremis, in jeopardy, indicated, jeopardized, on the spot, predicted, prefigured, preindicated, presaged, presignified, pretypified, prognosticated, promised, signified
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