how to pronounce threatened

/ˈθɹɛtənd/

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threatened is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of threatened in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… if they fear feel threatened how many …”

meanings of threatened

adjective:

At risk of becoming endangered in the near future.
Feeling insecure or vulnerable.

verb:

Simple past tense and past participle of threaten.

threatened frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word threatened occurs in english on average 15.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics threatened can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that threatened can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;