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单词 life-threatening
释义
life-threatening
adjective
uk
/ˈlaɪfˌθret.ən.ɪŋ/us
/ˈlaɪfˌθret.ən.ɪŋ/
A life-threateningdiseaseis a veryseriousone that cancausedeath:
（疾病）致命的，危及生命的
life-threateningdiseasessuch ascancer癌症等危及生命的疾病
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grievousformal
graveadjective
serious
severe
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
having a bad result or outcome
  • seriousHer condition is not thought to be serious.
  • badHe got a bad case of food poisoning.
  • bigOnline fraud is a big problem.
  • majorIt's not a major problem, but it does need to be taken care of.
  • graveThe public are in grave danger.
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Killing
  • -cide
  • abattoir
  • anti-suicide
  • assisted suicide
  • butchery
  • claimsomeone'slifeidiom
  • commit
  • culpable homicide
  • deadly
  • destroy
  • exterminate
  • liquidate
  • misery
  • mortal
  • neutralization
  • neutralize
  • non-fatal
  • overlie
  • poison
  • wring
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Disease & illness - general words
(Definition oflife-threateningfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

life-threatening| American Dictionary

life-threatening
adjective
us
/ˈlɑɪfˌθret·ən·iŋ/
abletocausedeath:
a life-threateningexperience/illness
(Definition oflife-threateningfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflife-threatening

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Unlike many other types of cancers, only a small fraction of prostate cancer cases are aggressive andlife-threatening.
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In addition, they know that the unit directors will not intervene in their lives unless there is an emergentlife-threateningmatter.
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There has been a quiet revolution in standards of care for those withlife-threateningillnesses and those near the end of life.
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Nevertheless, it may include thoughts of death distinct from the wish to die, such as in the context of alife-threateningillness.
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Some children with chronic illness and/orlife-threateningconditions will have established relationships with clinical caregivers; these relationships may engender special insight and unique responsibilities.
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Severe cyanosis is common in the early postoperative period and may belife-threatening.
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Rheumatoid disease can present as alife-threateningsystemic vasculitis.
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In anticoagulated patients however major surgical procedures may be potentiallylife-threateningby causing further bleeding.
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If antibiotics become very expensive, some people may not take them for severe, and evenlife-threatening, illnesses.
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The most striking behaviour is that of severe and persistent over-eating which, if unrestricted, leads tolife-threateningobesity.
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The catalyst for the request was alife-threateningillness.
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Patients with severe psychiatric illnesses lived homeless on the streets and reached the emergency room with multiple chronic illnesses and sometimeslife-threateningdiseases.
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Clinically, patients suffer from a host of seemingly unrelated maladies, from pain episodes to strokes,life-threateninginfections and pulmonary hypertension.
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The nervous system adapts to the intake level, and withdrawal may cause extreme suffering and in some cases may belife-threatening.
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You are permanently present inlife-threateningcircumstances, and you have to keep imagining the situation, time, place, relationships, and character background fully.
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