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# endangered

«endangered» in Mova's school dictionary: **one that may soon die out completely because very few are…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (endangered); also the past form of «endanger» (endanger, endangers, endangered, endangering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An endangered animal or plant is one that may soon die out completely because very few are left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endangered/#m1)

2) Endangered means put in danger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endangered/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography lessons, endangered species include tigers, pandas, orangutans, sea turtles and kakapos; causes are loss of habitat, hunting, pollution and climate change. In everyday life, people help by protecting habitats and not buying products that harm them. Phrases: «endangered species», «critically endangered», «endangered animals».

### examples

- Tigers are an endangered species. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endangered/#x1)
- The kakapo is a critically endangered parrot from New Zealand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endangered/#x2)
- Cutting down forests puts animals on the endangered list. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endangered/#x3)
- We did a project on endangered sea turtles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endangered/#x4)
- Driving too fast endangered the children's lives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endangered/#x5)
- Zoos help to breed endangered animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endangered/#x6)
- Some endangered plants grow only on one island. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endangered/#x7)

### note

«Endangered» is not the same as «extinct»: endangered animals still exist but might die out; extinct ones are gone forever (like dinosaurs). In maths, problems may compare how many are left (numbers falling year on year).

### In the corpora

- [Many sharks are endangered because they grow slowly and have few young, and they keep oceans healthy by eating sick fish.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/18/)
- [American alligators live in swamps, rivers and lakes in the south-eastern USA and recovered from being endangered once hunting was controlled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/15/)
- [Wild orangutans live only on Borneo and Sumatra and are critically endangered, largely because forests were cut down for palm oil farms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/7/)
- [Sawfish are critically endangered, mainly because their saws tangle in fishing nets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/91-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays/14/)
- [Today it is one of Britain's most endangered mammals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «endangered» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endangered/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.