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life-threatening

adj

Etymology

From life + threatening.

  1. inherited from thretenyng
  2. formed as life-threatening — “life + threatening”

Definitions

  1. 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 neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at life-threatening. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01life-threatening02fatal03destruction04feral05living06live07survive

A definitional loop anchored at life-threatening. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at life-threatening

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA