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Menace [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A threat or threatening; the declaration or show of a disposition or determination to inflict an evil; used of persons.

2. The show of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.

Menace [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To threaten; to express or show a disposition or determination to inflict punishment or other evil. The combined powers menaced France with war on every side.

2. To show or manifest the probability of future evil or danger to. The spirit of insubordination menaced Spain with the horrors of civil war.

3. To exhibit the appearance of any catastrophe to come; as, a hanging rock menaces a fall, or menaces the plain or the inhabitants below.

Menace [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.

2. 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.

3. To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.

Menace [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.

Menaced [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Threatened.

Menaced [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Menace

Menacer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that threatens.

Menacer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who menaces.