Usually means: Endangering survival, requiring immediate attention.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word life-threatening:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. life-threatening: Merriam-Webster
  2. life-threatening: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. life-threatening, life-threatening: Collins English Dictionary
  4. life-threatening: Vocabulary.com
  5. Life-Threatening, life-threatening: Wordnik
  6. life-threatening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. life-threatening: Wiktionary
  8. life-threatening: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. life-threatening: Dictionary.com
  10. life-threatening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Life-threatening: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. life-threatening: Rhymezone
  13. life-threatening: FreeDictionary.org
  14. life-threatening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. life-threatening: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Life-threatening: Wordnik

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. life-threatening: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. life-threatening: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Potentially fatal.

Similar:
toxic, hypertoxic, hypotoxic, necrotizing, terminally ill, septic, critical, morbidly obese, phlebotoxic, thanatophoric, more...

Opposite:
benign, non-threatening, not deadly

Types:
deadly, fatal, lethal, more...

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Similar:
toxic, hypertoxic, hypotoxic, necrotizing, terminally ill, septic, critical, morbidly obese, phlebotoxic, thanatophoric, more...

Opposite:
benign, non-threatening, not deadly

Types:
deadly, fatal, lethal, more...



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