Threatened

English

Verb

threatened

1. Simple past tense and past participle of threaten.

Adjective

Threatened (comparative more Threatened, superlative most Threatened)

1. (ecology, of a plant or animal) At risk of becoming endangered in the near future.
2. Feeling insecure or vulnerable.

Thesaurus

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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Translations

Adjective

at risk of becoming endangered

Dutch: bedreigd (nl) German: bedroht (de) Portuguese: ameaçado (pt)

Romanian: amenințat (ro) m. and n. Spanish: amenazado (es)