THREATEN

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Traducere în limba română

threaten verb A. tranzitiv

a ameninta;

to threaten punishment a ameninţa cu o pedeapsă.

threaten verb B. intranzitiv

a fi ameninţător, a ameninţa;

the clouds threaten norii ameninţă.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

"Stop that, or I'll open the door and make you!" called out the young gentleman in a threatening tone.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

For the world would not she have seemed to threaten me.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

However, the king hoped still to save his dear child altogether from the threatened evil; so he ordered that all the spindles in the kingdom should be bought up and burnt.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

"If you interfere with my sister, I'll call an officer," Norman threatened.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

She did not snap, nor threaten to snap.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

These forms of dengue are life-threatening.

(Dengue, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

A way to provide an investigational therapy to a patient who is not eligible to receive that therapy in a clinical trial, but who has a serious or life-threatening illness for which other treatments are not available.

(Compassionate Treatment, NCI Dictionary)

When the meeting with which she was threatened for the morrow was past, she could not but flatter herself that the subject would be finally concluded, and Mr. Crawford once gone from Mansfield, that everything would soon be as if no such subject had existed.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

They sailed many weeks, and traded with the Indians; but I knew not what course they took, being kept a close prisoner in my cabin, and expecting nothing less than to be murdered, as they often threatened me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

If it please you, he answered, I and nine others are the body-squires of the king, and must ever wear his arms, so as to shield him from even such perils as have threatened him this night.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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