life-threatening
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4.3
- adjective
- /ˈlaɪfˌθrɛtənɪŋ/
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potencialmente mortal
- Wearing a seatbelt can prevent life-threatening injuries during a car crash.
- a life-threatening condition
- potentially life-threatening
- a life-threatening complication
Are there treatments that can make life threatening allergies become non life threatening?
- Are there treatments that can make life threatening allergies become non life threatening?
- That's a life threatening emergency, Lights on, sirens going.
- And this is, you might say, oh, well, they've got a life threatening illness.
- But our son, if he got sick from this, that could be life threatening.
- And the signs in the blood work are that she is developing a life threatening complication of pregnancy.
- Let's take the classic example, which is inexpensive generic medication for life threatening chronic disease.
- We were really doing something potentially life threatening.
- Today, most citizens working lives involve shorter hours and fewer life threatening hazards than our forebears faced.
- And this can lead to something called sepsis, a kind of life threatening condition where you get your organs end up failing.
- Cannabis oil can help relieve symptoms, but it's not going to reduce or eliminate these aggressive, life threatening tumors.
- Many are being treated for life threatening conditions and we know that among those killed and injured were many children and young people.
- And like when it's something that's like life threatening and like, this is her lifeline.
Examples
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Therapy, in the form of tracheostomy, was offered only to those who were in a life-threatening situation.
Academic text (1999) -
It's a normal reaction to a life-threatening situation.
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Okay, so we have a life threatening injury.
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And during that time, I had a very, very serious life threatening car accident.
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So he was causing life threatening harm.
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We take care of the elderly and those who already have life threatening conditions.
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If this is you, get help because you have one of the most life threatening diseases out there.
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In the entire world, where is the most life-threatening place you could possibly be at any given moment?
Fiction book (2002) -
A human being is recovering from a life-threatening illness in there.
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The decision is yours, but I must make you aware that the complications could be life-threatening.
Synonyms
∞
1.5
Likely to cause harm or injury
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2.7
Likely to cause great harm or danger
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2.8
Able to cause death or serious harm
520
3.5
Very strong and harmful, often causing great damage
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4.2
Very serious and needing careful attention
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6.9
Very serious, frightening, and needing action quickly
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4.6
A very serious situation where someone may not survive
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7.9
Causing great pain or sorrow
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6.1
Involving a very serious risk to life or survival
Antonyms
How Life-Threatening
Surface Forms
Morphology
life-threatening = life + threatening (transparent) = life + threaten + ing
The compound combines 'life' and 'threatening' to mean 'posing a danger to life', which is directly inferable from the components.
Etymology
Life-threatening is simply two parts: life and threat, and a threat means 'danger' to someone. So, life-threatening describes a danger that can seriously harm or cause death to a person.