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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

... Alfred of Wessex in the same decade recovered South England. In both provinces of Christendom the situation was saved. The chiefs of the pirates were baptized; and though Northern barbarism remained a material menace for another hundred years, there was no ...

— Europe and the Faith - "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" • Hilaire Belloc

... not deal gently with these little houses and a few years ago they were condemned by the city council as unfit for habitation and ordered to be destroyed as they created a fire menace. Former owners succeeded in allaying the ultimatum of the council, reclaiming them from oblivion. Unaware that the story of Washington's ownership was true, the wing of one was demolished, the other is a new addition and replaces a smaller one too dilapidated to restore. ...

— Seaport in Virginia - George Washington's Alexandria • Gay Montague Moore

... aim at Cavalier grounded their muskets, and Cavalier changing menace for entreaty, begged them not to break the promise that he had made in their name; whereupon the prophets struck up a psalm, and the rest of the soldiers joining in, his voice was completely drowned. Nevertheless, Cavalier did not lose heart, but accompanied them on their march to Saint-Esteve, ...

— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... days when the League was formed it had been able to develop itself with great facility, the dangers which lurked behind its encroachment on the privileges of the Crown not being suspected. But Sir Alfred Milner discovered the menace at once, and with the quiet firmness and the tact which he always displayed in everything that he undertook proceeded to cope ...

— Cecil Rhodes - Man and Empire-Maker • Princess Catherine Radziwill

... dogfish came the men pulled up their anchors and rowed a mile or so away, for where the dogfish pursues all others fly. He has the shape and traits of his merciless giant brother, the tiger-shark, with the added menace of a horn full of poison in the middle of his back instead of a dorsal fin; an evil, curved horn, the thrust of which can be nearly fatal ...

— The Harbor of Doubt • Frank Williams

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