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📖 Определения и значения для слова threat

📒 a statement in which you tell somebody that you will punish or harm them, especially if they do not do what you want

  • threat against somebody/something to make threats against somebody
  • threat to do something She is prepared to carry out her threat to resign.
  • She received death threats on social media.

📒 the possibility of trouble, danger or disaster

  • under threat (from somebody/something) These ancient woodlands are under threat from new road developments.
  • Many wild plants are under threat of extinction.
  • threat of something There is a real threat of war.

📒 a person or thing that is likely to cause trouble, danger, etc.

  • threat to somebody/something Drugs pose a major threat to our society.
  • We're facing a very strong terrorist threat.
  • He is unlikely to be a threat to the Spanish player in the final.
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