threatened

[threatened]

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

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Adjective S.
(of flora or fauna) likely in the near future to become endangered; "the spotted owl is a threatened species, not yet an endangered one"


imp. & p. p.
of Threaten


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Usage Examples

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.

He's a good tough producer, yes. But I don't think that he's unreasonable unless he feels threatened. And when somebody's in your home, I think everybody in the home gets threatened.

Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.

I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

Men tend to feel threatened women tend to feel guilty.

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Other Usage Examples

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.

Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.

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