threatened

• IPA^(key): /ˈθɹɛt.n̩d/

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• Hyphenation: threat‧ened

threatened

1. simple past and past participle of threaten

threatened (comparative more threatened, superlative most threatened)

1. (especially ecology, of an organism) At risk of becoming endangered in the near future.
   • 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 78:

     It is particularly desirable to obtain photographs of rural stations, both with and without a train, in view of the threatened wholesale closure of unremunerative branches throughout the country.

2. Feeling insecure or vulnerable.