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Keyword
threaten
Info
FrequencyTop 1100-1200
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 3
Heisig936
Readings
おど
(37%)
おび
(3%)
Composed of
力
power
力
power
力
power
月
moon
Used in vocabulary (33 in total)
to threaten; to menace; to frighten (into doing)
threat; menace
to intimidate; to frighten; to scare; to threaten (e.g. peace); to jeopardize; to endanger
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Examples (43 in total)
Disease is a threat to human beings.
The threat increases; a defence that doesn't evolve is meaningless.
You were being threatened.
Are you threatening me?
Threatening me is useless, I won't say anything.
A strange man threatened her with a knife.
Someone made a threat to kill that politician.
Your answer almost amounts to a threat.
This answer almost amounts to a threat.
She interpreted his remarks as a threat.
She threatened him.
I am not in the least afraid of his threats.
She threatened to set our house on fire.
She scared the cat away.
We thought his threat was only a joke.
His request was tantamount to a threat.
He threatened to make it public.
It will threaten the prosperity of the town.
I interpreted his remark as a threat.
Tom threatened to kill me.
Tom threatened Mary.
The manager threatened him with dismissal.
He's being threatened by a certain gangster.
This kind of bomb is a serious menace to mankind.
What he said was nothing less than a threat.
I was scared that you might leave me.
Rev. King and his supporters were threatened.
The workers are threatening to strike.
Three men menaced him with knives.
There are many threats to this operation.
He argued that nuclear weapons were a threat to peace.
Nuclear weapons are a threat to humanity.
Nuclear weapons are a threat to all humanity.
The police threatened to send her to jail.
I threatened to reveal his secret.
The atomic bomb is a grave threat to mankind.
Civilization is now threatened by nuclear war.
The mayor's family was harassed with threatening phone calls all day.
Solar energy does not threaten the environment.
Air pollution will be a threat to our survival.
Their habitat is threatened by deforestation.
The employees threatened to go on strike.
Legal changes threaten online sales in digital commerce.