Usually means: At risk of danger, harm.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. threatened: Merriam-Webster
  2. threatened: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. threatened: Collins English Dictionary
  4. threatened: Vocabulary.com
  5. Threatened, threatened: Wordnik
  6. threatened: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. threatened: Wiktionary
  8. threatened: Dictionary.com
  9. threatened: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Threatened: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Threatened: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. threatened: Rhymezone
  13. Threatened: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. threatened: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. threatened: FreeDictionary.org
  16. threatened: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. threatened: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. threatened: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. threatened: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. threatened: Evolution Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (threatened)

adjective:  (especially ecology, of an organism) At risk of becoming endangered in the near future.
adjective:  Feeling insecure or vulnerable.

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