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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Menace \Men"ace\ (m[e^]n"[asl]s; 48), noun [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.
His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his menaces. --Milman.
The dark menace of the distant war. --Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Menace \Men"ace\ (m[e^]n"[asl]s; 48), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Menaced} ([=a]st); p. pr. & vb. n. {Menacing}.] [OF. menacier, F. menacer. See {Menace}, noun]
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Menace \Men"ace\, verb (used without an object) To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.
Who ever knew the heavens menace so? --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
menace
noun
1: something that is a source of danger; "earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan" [syn: {threat}]
2: a threat or the act of threatening; "he spoke with desperate menace"
verb
1: pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops" [syn: {endanger}, {jeopardize}, {jeopardise}, {threaten}, {imperil}, {peril}]
2: express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture; "he menaced the bank manager with a stick"
3: act in a threatening manner; "A menacing person"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, wrong
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