Summary

threatening {adjective}
amenazador

to threaten {verb}
amenazar · conminar · bravear · amagar · asechar · intimidar

Synonyms

threatening: baleful · forbidding · menacing

threaten: endanger · jeopardize · jeopardise

Usage examples

life threatening
... is hard and threatening....
... are very threatening things....

English-Spanish translation for "threatening"

"threatening" Spanish translation

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threatening {adjective}

threatening {adj.} (also: lowering, threatener)

amenazador {adj.}

This is threatening and stressful for the inhabitants of Taiwan.

Esto resulta amenazador y estresante para los habitantes de Taiwán.

Once upon a time, East Prussia was a threatening German enclave in the middle of the Slavonic and Baltic areas.

En otros tiempos la Prusia Oriental constituía un enclave alemán amenazador en territorio eslavo y báltico.

Orkut does, however, have a strict policy against hate speech and threatening language.

No obstante, orkut cuenta con una estricta política que prohíbe la promoción del odio y el lenguaje amenazador.

Europe and the United States are adopting increasingly threatening language with each other on a variety of topics.

El diálogo entre ambas potencias se vuelve cada vez más amenazador, y eso en muy diversos ámbitos.

The report tries to make the protocol sound less threatening, but the principle is exactly the same.

El informe se esfuerza por conseguir que el protocolo resulte menos amenazador, pero el principio es exactamente el mismo.

to threaten {verb}

to threaten [threatened|threatened] {vb} (also: to menace)

amenazar [amenazando|amenazado] {v.t.}

threatening (Present participle)

amenazando (Gerundio)

to threaten [threatened|threatened] {vb} (also: to intimidate, to endanger)

conminar [conminando|conminado] {v.t.}

threatening (Present participle)

conminando (Gerundio)

to threaten [threatened|threatened] {vb} (also: to boast)

bravear [braveando|braveado] {v.i.}

threatening (Present participle)

braveando (Gerundio)

to threaten [threatened|threatened] {vb}

amagar [amagando|amagado] {v.t.}

threatening (Present participle)

amagando (Gerundio)

to threaten [threatened|threatened] {vb} (also: to set a trap for)

asechar [asechando|asechado] {vb}

threatening (Present participle)

asechando (Gerundio)

to threaten [threatened|threatened] {v.t.} (also: to intimidate, to bully, to hector)

intimidar {v.t.}

threatening (Present participle)

intimidando (Gerundio)

Synonyms

Synonyms (English) for "threatening":

© Princeton Universitybaleful · forbidding · menacing · minacious · minatory · ominous · sinister · heavy · lowering · sullen

Synonyms (English) for "threaten":

© Princeton Universityendanger · jeopardize · jeopardise · menace · imperil · peril

Usage examples

Usage examples for "threatening" in Spanish

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life threatening

potencialmente fatal

Reality is hard and threatening.

La realidad es dura, amenazante.

These are very threatening things.

Estos hechos son muy alarmantes.

That is what is threatening to happen now.

Y eso es justo el peligro que estamos corriendo.

That is literally a life-threatening development.

Ésta puede ser una evolución mortal.

No life threatening events were detected.

No se detectaron eventos potencialmente mortales.

Everything is pointing to this threatening direction.

Todo apunta hacia esa amenazante dirección.

The dark threatening cloud however has a silver lining.

Sin embargo, no hay mal que por bien no venga.

Bleeding varices can be life-threatening.

La hemorragia derivada de las várices puede ser mortal.

Bleeding in the gut can be life-threatening.

Una hemorragia en el intestino puede ser potencialmente fatal.

Painting a threatening picture is often the easiest option.

En muchas ocasiones, el catastrofismo es la alternativa más fácil.

War is threatening to break out again in the Gulf.

En la región del Golfo se está preparando un nuevo conflicto bélico.

threatening ever larger numbers of people in most parts of the world.

creciente de personas en la mayoría de los países.

Acute bacterial meningitis is a life-threatening illness.

La meningitis bacteriana aguda es una enfermedad potencialmente mortal.

None of the trials reported any life-threatening complications.

Ninguno de los ensayos informó complicaciones potencialmente mortales.

At the same time, the United States have taken a threatening stand.

Al mismo tiempo, los Estados Unidos han adoptado una postura amenazadora.

We ultimately ask the following question: who is threatening whom?

Es una violación del Derecho internacional, y es completamente inaceptable.

The danger threatening us is the infamous reversal of means and objectives.

El peligro que corremos es la famosa inversión del objetivo y del medio.

That would be a serious error, threatening the Union's very existence.

Sería un grave error que haría peligrar la propia supervivencia de la Unión.

Rural development is threatening to become one of them.

Abandonan así los ambiciosos objetivos de unificación de Europa en el futuro.

Similar words

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