威胁

威脅traditional

HSK 5#1564 by frequencyradical 女

wēi xié["v","vn"]

to threaten; to menace

Examples

他威胁要公开。

He threatened to make it public.

你那时被人威胁了。

You were being threatened.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.