угрожать

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Russian

Etymology

Verbal form of угро́за (ugróza, threat, danger), from гроза́ (grozá, terror), from Proto-Slavic *groza (terror) (vd. there for cognates)

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Verb

угрожа́ть (ugrožátʹimpf

  1. to threaten
    • 1930, Владимир Набоков, chapter 4, in Защита Лужина; English translation from Michael Scammell in collaboration with the author, transl., The Luzhin Defense, New York, 1964:
      Под скамейкой тень распласталась резкой решёткой. Каменные столбы с урнами, стоявшие на четырёх углах садовой площадки, угрожали друг другу по диагонали.
      Pod skamejkoj tenʹ rasplastalasʹ rezkoj rešótkoj. Kamennyje stolby s urnami, stojavšije na četyrjóx uglax sadovoj ploščadki, ugrožali drug drugu po diagonali.
      An intense latticelike shadow lay flat beneath a garden bench. The urns that stood on stone pedestals at the four corners of the terrace threatened one another across their diagonals.

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