Word: threatened
Part of speech: Verb
Syllables: threatened
Definition: Simple past tense and past participle of threaten; to utter intentions of injury or punishment against:
Morphemes:
Affix: threat
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To threaten.
Affix: -en
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Denotes the past participle form when attached to a verb.
Affix: -ed
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any past form. See -t for a variant.