All threatened synonyms
threat·en
T t adj threatened
- dead duck — If you describe someone or something as a dead duck, you are emphasizing that you think they have absolutely no chance of succeeding.
- ill-omened — having or attended by bad omens; ill-starred.
- doomed — fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.
- in the cards — a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder: a 3″ × 5″ file card; a membership card.
- at risk — To be at risk means to be in a situation where something unpleasant might happen.
verb threatened
- confronted — Simple past tense and past participle of confront.
- loomed — a looming appearance, as of something seen indistinctly at a distance or through a fog: the loom of a moraine directly in their path.
- concussed — If someone is concussed, they lose consciousness or feel sick or confused because they have been hit hard on the head.
- overbore — simple past tense of overbear.
- dragooned — Simple past tense and past participle of dragoon.
- destabilized — to make unstable; rid of stabilizing attributes: conflicts that tend to destabilize world peace.
- beetled — Projecting over.
- impended — Simple past tense and past participle of impend.
- denounced — Simple past tense and past participle of denounce.
- domineered — Simple past tense and past participle of domineer.
adjective threatened
- imperiled — to put in peril or danger; endanger.
- imperilled — to put in peril or danger; endanger.
- endangered — (of a species) Seriously at risk of extinction.
- exposed — Make (something) visible, typically by uncovering it.
- disappearing — Present participle of disappear.
- jeopardised — Simple past tense and past participle of jeopardise.
- jeopardized — Simple past tense and past participle of jeopardize.