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menace |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Menace \Men"ace\, 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 His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his menaces. --Milman. The dark menace of the distant war. --Dryden. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Menace \Men"ace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Menaced} ([=a]st); p. pr & vb n. {Menacing}.] [OF. menacier, F. menacer. See {Menace}, n.] 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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Menace \Men"ace\, v. i. To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect. Who ever knew the heavens menace so? --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: menace n 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" v 1: pose a threat to present a danger to "The pollution is endangering the crops" [syn: {endanger}, {jeopardize}, {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"
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