📚 Life-threatening, adjective. 🔉 /ˈlʌɪfˌθrɛt(ə)nɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (especially of an illness or injury) potentially fatal. ❗️ Examples: 1. Cancer is not the only life-threatening condition. 2. And it's not just those suffering from life-threatening illness who are offered such help. 3. The basic fact may nowhere be as true as when we are tested by a life-threatening illness. 4. The man was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries - a deep wound to his side had punctured a lung. 5. They have been asked to keep an eye out for symptoms of the potentially life-threatening disease in their children. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic