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·noun To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.
II. Menace ·vi To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.
III. Menace ·noun The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
IV. Menace ·noun 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.
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¦ noun a threat or danger.
?a threatening quality.
¦ verb be a threat or danger to.
Derivatives
menacer noun
menacing adjective
menacingly adverb
Origin
ME: via OFr. from late L. minacia, from L. minax, minac- 'threatening', from minae 'threats'.
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(menaces, menacing, menaced)
1.
If you say that someone or something is a menace to other people or things, you mean that person or thing is likely to cause serious harm.
In my view you are a menace to the public.
...the menace of fascism...
= threat
N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N to n, N of n
2.
You can refer to someone or something as a menace when you want to say that they cause you trouble or annoyance. (INFORMAL)
You're a menace to my privacy, Kenworthy...
= nuisance
N-COUNT: usu sing
3.
Menace is a quality or atmosphere that gives you the feeling that you are in danger or that someone wants to harm you.
...a voice full of menace.
N-UNCOUNT
4.
If you say that one thing menaces another, you mean that the first thing is likely to cause the second thing serious harm.
The European states retained a latent capability to menace Britain's own security.
= threaten
VERB: V n
5.
If you are menaced by someone, they threaten to harm you.
She's being menaced by her sister's latest boyfriend.
= threaten
VERB: be V-ed, also V n
Примеры произношения для Menace
1. Bloody bird's a menace.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2. to threat and menace.
Living with the Living Dead, The Wisdom of the Zombie Apocalypse _ Greg Garrett _ Talks at Google
3. menace, the intensity--
A Wanted Man & One Shot _ Lee Child _ Talks at Google
4. called Transsexual Menace.
Burgamy _ Talks at Google
5. to the "3S" menace,
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Примеры употребления для Menace
1. She‘s sinister, manipulative and complex, radiating a sense of menace.
2. Convoys of huge lorries are virtually a 24–hour menace.
3. It was the second hurricane to menace the region recently.
4. "The janjaweed continue to be a menace," said Col.
5. But underlying the fairground atmosphere was a sense of menace.