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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun menace has 2 senses
- menace(n = noun.state) threat - something that is a source of danger; "earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan" is a kind of danger
- menace(n = noun.communication) Array - a threat or the act of threatening; "he spoke with desperate menace" is a kind of threat
has particulars: yellow peril
Derived form verb menace1
Derived forms verb menace3, verb menace2
Verb menace has 3 senses
- menace(v = verb.stative) endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, peril, threaten - pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops" is one way to be, exist
- menace(v = verb.communication) Array - express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture; "he menaced the bank manager with a stick" is one way to evince, express, show
- menace(v = verb.body) Array - act in a threatening manner; "A menacing person" is one way to act, behave, do
Derived form noun menace1
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot menace Sue
Derived form noun menace2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Derived form noun menace2
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
CIDE DICTIONARY
menace, n. [F., fr. L. minaciae threats, menaces, fr. minax, -acis, projecting, threatening, minae projecting points or pinnacles, threats. Cf. Amenable, Demean, Imminent, Minatory.].
The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come. [1913 Webster]
"His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his menaces."
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"The dark menace of the distant war."
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- To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; -- usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war. [1913 Webster]"My master . . . did menace me with death." [1913 Webster]
- To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted. [1913 Webster]"By oath he menaced
Revenge upon the cardinal." [1913 Webster]
menace, v. i.
To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect. [1913 Webster]
"Who ever knew the heavens menace so?"
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
menace, n. & v.
--n.
1 a threat.
2 a dangerous or obnoxious thing or person.
3 joc. a pest, a nuisance.
--v.tr. & intr. threaten, esp. in a malignant or hostile manner.
--n.
1 a threat.
2 a dangerous or obnoxious thing or person.
3 joc. a pest, a nuisance.
--v.tr. & intr. threaten, esp. in a malignant or hostile manner.
Derivative
menacer n. menacingly adv.
Etymology
ME ult. f. L minax -acis threatening f. minari threaten
THESAURUS
menace
abuse, afflict, aggrieve, alarm, apprehend, approach, await, be imminent, be in store, befoul, bewitch, blight, bludgeon, bode, breakers ahead, brew, bulldoze, bulldozing, bully, cardhouse, cause for alarm, come on, comminate, commination, compromise, condemn, confront, corrupt, cow, crisis, croak, crucify, curse, damage, danger, dangerous ground, daunt, defile, denounce, denunciation, deprave, despoil, destroy, disadvantage, disserve, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, draw near, draw nigh, draw on, emergency, empty threat, endanger, endangerment, envenom, face, forebode, foreboding, forewarn, forthcome, frighten, gaping chasm, gather, gathering clouds, get into trouble, hang over, harass, harm, have a premonition, have a presentiment, hazard, hex, house of cards, hover, hurt, idle threat, imminence, impair, impend, imperil, imperilment, implied threat, infect, injure, intimidate, intimidation, jeopard, jeopardize, jeopardy, jinx, lie over, look black, look threatening, loom, lower, maltreat, mistreat, molest, near, outrage, overhang, pass, peril, persecute, pinch, play havoc with, play hob with, plight, poison, pollute, portend, preapprehend, predicament, prejudice, promise of harm, quicksand, risk, rocks ahead, savage, scare, scathe, storm clouds, strait, sword of Damocles, taint, terrify, terrorize, thin ice, threat, threaten, threateningness, threatfulness, torment, torture, utter threats against, violate, warn, warning, wound, wreak havoc on, wrongROGET THESAURUS
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Warning
VB warn, caution, forewarn, prewarn, admonish, premonish, give notice, give warning, dehort, menace, put on one's guard, sound the alarm, croak, beware, ware, take warning, take heed at one's peril, keep watch and ward.Threat
N threat, menace, defiance, abuse, minacity, intimidation, denunciation, fulmination, commination, gathering clouds, threatening, menacing, minatory, minacious, comminatory, abusive, in terrorem, ominous, defiant, under the ban, Int, vae victis!, at your peril!, do your worst!.VB threat, threaten, menace, snarl, growl, gnarl, mutter, bark, bully, defy, intimidate, keep in terrorem, hold up in terrorem, hold out in terrorem, shake the fist at, double the fist at, clinch the fist at, thunder, talk big, fulminate, use big words, bluster, look daggers, stare daggers.
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