menace

1. n. The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come. Source: opted

2. n. 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. Source: opted

3. n. To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted. Source: opted

4. v. i. To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect. Source: opted

5. n. something that is a source of danger Source: wordnet

6. n. a threat or the act of threatening Source: wordnet

7. v. pose a threat to; present a danger to Source: wordnet

8. v. express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture Source: wordnet

9. v. act in a threatening manner Source: wordnet

10. The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come. His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his menaces. Milman. The dark menace of the distant war. Dryden. 1. 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. My master . . . did menace me with death. Shak. 2. To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted. By oath he menaced Revenge upon the cardinal. Shak. To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect. Who ever knew the heavens menace so Shak. Source: webster

11. The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat orthreatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his menaces. Milman.The dark menace of the distant war. Dryden. Source: adambom

12. v:16/n:84 n. something that is a source of danger n. a threat or the act of threatening v. express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture v. act in a threatening manner Source: ecdict

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