Threatening

Definition

threaten /θretn/ v ၁။ (က) ~ sb (with sth) ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္သည္။ threaten an employee with dismissal ❍ My attacker threatened me with a gun. ❍ threaten sb's life (ie to kill sb). (ခ) (…ျဖင့္… မည္ဟု) ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္သည္။ ႀကိမ္းဝါးသည္။ He threatened legal action. ❍ The threatened strike has been called off. ❍ The hijackers threatened to kill/ that they would kill all the passengers if their demands were not met. ၂။ အရိပ္လကၡဏာေပၚေပါက္သည္။ အလားအလာ ရိွသည္။ နိမိတ္ျပသည္။ When war threatens, people act irrationally. ❍ a mistake that threatens, to be costly ❍ This dispute threatens to split the party. ❍ The clouds threatened rain. ၃။ ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္သည္။ (အလားအလာကို) ရင္ဆိုင္ေနရသည္။ This dispute is threatening party unity. ❍ a species threatened with extinction. ❏ threatening adj ၁။ ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္ေသာ။ threatening behaviour/ gestures/ letters. ၂။ (မိုးရြာရန္ စသည္) ဟန္ျပင္ ေနေသာ။ a threatening sky (ie full of dark clouds). ❏ threateningly adv စားေတာ့ဝါးေတာ့မလို အႏၲရာယ္ျပဳမည့္ ဟန္ျဖင့္ (စိန္းစိန္းၾကည့္သည္)။ glare threateningly.

Examples

1. He’s been threatening me for months.
2. [threaten to do something] : The terrorists are threatening to kill the hostages.
3. [threaten someone with something] : One man has been threatened with legal action.
4. [threaten someone’s life] : My life has been threatened on several occasions.
5. NATO has threatened air strikes against the capital.
6. The cancer that now threatens his life
7. Their actions threaten the stability and security of the region.
8. Many workers feel that their jobs are threatened.
9. [threaten to do something] : Nuclear testing threatens to destroy our environment.
10. Rain was threatening
11. and it had turned cold.
12. The wildebeest return to the herd when danger threatens.