menace
menace is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 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.
- 3.To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect. Who ever knew the heavens menace so Shak.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abuse
- abusive
- ban
- bark
- big
- bluster
- bully
- clinch
- commination
- comminatory
- curse
- defiance
- defiant
- defy
- denunciation
- double
- fist
- fulminate
- fulmination
- gathering
- gnarl
- growl
- hold
- intimidate
- intimidation
- keep
- look
- minacious
- minacity
- minatory
- mutter
- ominous
- out
- peril
- shake
- snarl
- stare
- talk
- the
- threat
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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