Keyword
threaten
Info
FrequencyTop 1100-1200
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 3
Heisig936
Readings
おど
(36%)
おび
(3%)
Composed of
power
power
power
moon
Used in vocabulary (34 in total)
to threaten; to menace; to frighten (into doing)
to intimidate; to frighten; to scare; to threaten (e.g. peace); to jeopardize; to endanger
threat; menace
Examples (67 in total)
There are no elements that seem likely to pose a threat other than the large number.
There is no longer any threat.
Most opponents do not even pose a threat.
I ended up doing something that amounted to threatening such a respectable person.
I have never been threatened.
Are you trying to threaten me?
You didn't threaten someone and take it from them, did you?
The threat of nuclear weapons still exists.
I will repel any threat.
So that means there's no need to worry about being blackmailed anymore?
Was there some kind of pressure, or a threat?
It is merely a threat rather than advice.
However, that flame did not endanger the lives of the players.
I simply eliminate anything that threatens national security.
It is a situation that threatens national security, you see.
Survival is threatened.
The threat has been removed.
Yes, what I am saying is neither a joke nor a threat.
I want to believe it's just a threat, but...
For an ordinary person, that might have been threat enough.
It is a way of speaking close to a threat.
Some sensed the true nature of the threat before anyone else.
Bear sightings are frightening the local residents.
That country is intimidating its neighbor with its military power.
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 scared the cat away.
She threatened to set our house on fire.
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.
I was scared that you might leave me.
This kind of bomb is a serious menace to mankind.
What he said was nothing less than a threat.
Rev. King and his supporters were threatened.
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 workers are threatening to strike.
There are many threats to this operation.
Three men menaced him with knives.
I threatened to reveal his secret.
The police threatened to send her to jail.
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.