threaten

threaten['θretən]

• vt.
  • 威胁，恐吓，恫吓；危及，对…构成威胁：

    He threatened the boy with a beating.

    他以揍一顿来威胁这个小孩。

    Her boss threatened to fire her.

    老板威胁要开除她。

    It will greatly threaten the peace in the Middle East.

    它将会极大地危及中东和平。

    An epidemic threatened the city.

    瘟疫威胁着这座城市。

  • 预示…的恶兆；有…的危险：

    The clouds threaten snow.

    乌云预示着要下雪。

• vi.
  • 威胁，恐吓，胁迫：

    Do you mean to threaten?

    你是想威胁吗?

  • (威胁等)临近，迫近；构成威胁：

    Knowing that danger threatened, they were on the alert.

    因为知道可能会发生危险，他们处于戒备状态。

  • 被吓住：

    He doesn't threaten easily.

    他不那么容易被吓住。

• 近义词:

  menace

• civilianizing
• three-crop
• with immediate effect / with effect from
• tabbed
• Ephesian
• long-nose pliers
• Narragansett Bay
• environal
• perpetual arrhythmia
• ionones
• storage ring
• donnybrooks
• take up the gauntlet
• radiator grilles
• be in pain
• bosh faker
• permutated
• dowel pin
• thyrector
• (as)sober as a judge
• disinformers
• in the teeth of the wind
• rewardful
• slipshoddiness
• sea legs
• somniloquence
• lift the lid on sth
• agranulocytic angina
• brain tablet
• cascade tray
• run up the back
• semi-display
• obser
• birth traumas
• acatalasemia
• Aldan
• bohunks
• as ugly as a toad
• connexional
• gimbaled或gimballed
• sling load
• unimodular matrix
• bespoke
• glyodin
• allometric growth
• sand dollar
• shittims
• have a rod in pickle for
• slap on the wrist
• thoughtfully
• China clays
• lodgepole pine
• dogholes
• ROM BIOS
• controlled airport
• set yourself against (doing) sth
• copolymerization
• indwellers
• rescindment
• that's your（或his, her等） problem
• entoproctas
• Amy-John
• chinchona
• in the distance
• crown lens
• day care hospital
• condescendences
• indirect effects
• berdash
• laitier
• bundled
• splinterless
• trial-produce
• ranchman
• pogonias
• hydrostatic press
• anastomosed
• wood spirit
• step counter
• panoptic
• be on bad terms with
• travel over
• magazine-format
• dove pox
• meet with
• automatic counter
• vanishing twins
• draw away
• Spence
• electric circuits
• loppiest
• run the blockade
• Maitland, Frederic William
• have sb up (for sth)
• grease the fat pig
• tawpies
• Sagittarius star cloud
• point of impact
• rope-a-dope
• Jibuti