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Menace

noun

Something that is a source of danger. Synonym: threat.

A threat or the act of threatening.

verb

(past & past part. menaced; pres. part. menacing)

Pose a threat to; present a danger to. Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, peril, threaten.

Express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture.

Act in a threatening manner.

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"Menace" Quotes from Famous Books

... a living menace in Hogarty's steady tread up and down the room. He wheeled and crossed, turned and retraced his steps noiselessly, cat-footed in his low rubbed-shod shoes. And he turned a gaze that was almost pitying ...

— Once to Every Man • Larry Evans

... said slowly and calmly: "Stand back, Mazarine. Let her go to her room. This is a free country, and she's free in her own house. It's her house until you've proved she's got no right there." Then he added with sharp insistence and menace: "Stand ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... so often vanquish'd, vainly dare Menace the victor that has laid you low— Look now at France—and view your own despair In the majestic splendour ...

— Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, Complete - Being Secret Letters from a Gentleman at Paris to a Nobleman in London • Lewis Goldsmith

... search the Florida seas for the thousands of kinds of rare fish and water creatures that abound there. The Florida waters hide many strange and unknown dangers. The perils the chums encounter from weird fishes and creatures of the sea and the menace of hurricane and shipwreck, make very interesting and instructive reading. This is the sixth book of adventures of the ...

— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely

... Ysabel was at once surrounded by a determined retinue. This intruding Southerner was welcome to the honours of the race-field, but the Star of Monterey was not for him. He smiled as he saw the menace ...

— The Splendid Idle Forties - Stories of Old California • Gertrude Atherton

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