life-threatening
life-threatening adjective: potentially fatal.
Adjective
life-threatening (comparative more life-threatening, superlative most life-threatening)
- Potentially fatal.
- The life-threatening illness caused him to be rushed to the hospital, where doctors worked around the clock to save his life.
- The MoD said the injured men received immediate medical attention and were evacuated by air to the military hospital at Camp Bastion, but three could not be saved. Next of kin have been informed. The other soldiers hurt are not thought to have life-threatening injures.2013 May 1, Nicholas Watt, Nick Hopkins, “Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2024
life-threatening meaning in Marathi and Tagalog
life-threatening in Marathi
- life-threatening
- प्राणघातक prāṇghātak
life-threatening in Tagalog
- potentially fatal
- buwis-buhay
Forms of life-threatening
| comparative | more life-threatening |
|---|---|
| superlative | most life-threatening |
Origin of life-threatening
From life + threatening.
Words formed from life-threatening
Questions about life-threatening
- What does life-threatening mean?
- Life-threatening means potentially fatal.
- What is life-threatening in Marathi?
- Life-threatening in Marathi is प्राणघातक (prāṇghātak). See Life-threatening meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is life-threatening?
- Life-threatening is an adjective.
Words near life-threatening in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: life-threatening (page history and authors); प्राणघातक (Marathi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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