Menace
['menəs] or ['mɛnəs]
Definition
(noun.) a threat or the act of threatening; 'he spoke with desperate menace'.
(noun.) something that is a source of danger; 'earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan'.
(verb.) act in a threatening manner; 'A menacing person'.
(verb.) express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture; 'he menaced the bank manager with a stick'.
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Definition
(n.) The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
(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.
(n.) To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.
(v. i.) To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Threaten, denounce, defy.
n. Threat, threatening, denunciation.
Typist: Sophie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Threat, denunciation, threatening
ANT:good_will, blessing
Editor: Will
Definition
v.t. to threaten.—v.i. to act in a threatening manner.—n. a threat or threatening: a show of an intention to do harm.—adj. Men′acing overhanging: threatening.—adv. Men′acingly.
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Examples
- With a stamp of her foot and a menace. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Nature, our mother, and our friend, had turned on us a brow of menace. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- What does she mean by leaning her cheek on Rushedge i' that way, and looking at us wi' a scowl and a menace? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His Grace, in the meek humility of his heart, has written to menace a prosecution if such trash be published. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- What its menace meant he could not guess: but he was sufficiently warned by the fact that Madame Olenska's name had evoked it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Paul, and seeing in his vexedfiery, and searching eye, a sort of appeal behind all its menace, my lips dropped the word oui. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A new and most unpleasant system of menace had begun, and the intent appeared to be to do him grievous bodily harm. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- His gold is prodigated in every direction which his stupid menaces fail to frighten. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- No more taunts on my intellect, no more menaces of grating public shows! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I laughed in my sleeve at his menaces. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Thus, by menaces of the sword, they would have driven back those who had escaped from fire. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Then as swords menaced me a command from Xodar stayed the hands of his fellows. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I dangers dared; I hindrance scorned; I omens did defy: Whatever menaced, harassed, warned, I passed impetuous by. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- For whatever sentiment met him in form too facile, his lips menaced, beautifully but surely, caprice and light esteem. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He had in fact, and without knowing it, done what he menaced to do. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Naked and unarmed as I was, I had no desire to face the unseen thing which menaced me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The enemy, seeing their left flank and rear menaced, gave way, and were followed by Cruft and Osterhaus. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The man mastered himself with a violent effort, and his grim mouth loosened into a false laugh, which was more menacing than his frown. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- At this hour and by this light it changes into threatening hands raised up and menacing the handsome face with every breath that stirs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He held a short, metal-headed stick in his hand, and he advanced in so menacing a fashion that I was right glad to feel the revolver in my pocket. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A growl more terrible than the bark, menacing as muttered thunder, succeeded. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There seemed something menacing in their attitude toward my beast, and I hesitated to leave until I had learned the outcome. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He stood for an instant, and then he crept forward, crouching, menacing, into the room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- On the drive homeward May remained oddly silent; through the darkness, he still felt her enveloped in her menacing blush. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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