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词汇 example_english_grave-threat
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grave threat

collocation in English

meanings of graveand threat


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grave
adjective
uk /ɡreɪv/ us /ɡreɪv/
seriously ...
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threat
noun[C]
uk /θret/ us /θret/
a suggestion that something unpleasant or violent will happen, especially if a particular action or order is ...
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Examples of grave threat


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This is a gravethreat.
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This is potentially a gravethreat.
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There might be a gravethreat to personal freedom.
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Then there will undoubtedly be a gravethreat of deflation.
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This is something which is a very gravethreat indeed.
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I thought that that was a gravethreat.
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Proliferation is a gravethreat to international security.
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Earlier this year, it was under gravethreat of closure.
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The shirt industry is under a gravethreat.
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In the meantime, our industry is faced with a very gravethreat to the home market.
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Its manpower and its budget are being cut and it is under gravethreat.
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They only decide to fight when their interests seem to them to be under gravethreat.
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Climate change is a gravethreat indeed, and steps must be taken immediately.
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There are those who talk as though the closure of every mine represented a gravethreat.
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Above all, in principle it is a gravethreat if we accept qualifications which are unaccredited.
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It was a gravethreat, and this is an attempt to mitigate and alleviate the consequences.
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It is a gravethreat to our standard of living, and to the health of our already overstrained population.
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Commercial pressures in this direction pose a gravethreat to scientific research and a hindrance to its ultimate medical applications.
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Clearly, there is a gravethreat of a national water strike for the first time in our history.
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The implication was that the very fact of grant-maintained schools represented a gravethreat to local democracy.
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He has lifted a gravethreat to the trade in fish cakes and cods' heads, for which the trade will be duly grateful.
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With the development of interest in antiques and historic artefacts, even the churches in use, as well as the redundant churches, are under gravethreat.
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The tunnel under the electricity switching station has to be ruled out because of high cost and gravethreat to the construction programme.
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The numbers clearly were an exaggeration but an exaggeration that does indicate a gravethreat.
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The area is under a gravethreat due to overfishing and destructive fishing practices.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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