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Menacing

adjective

1.

Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments. Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening. "Forbidding thunderclouds" , "His tone became menacing" , "Ominous rumblings of discontent" , "Sinister storm clouds" , "A sinister smile" , "His threatening behavior" , "Ugly black clouds" , "The situation became ugly"

Menace

verb

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

1.

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

2.

Express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture.

3.

Act in a threatening manner.

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"Menacing" Quotes from Famous Books

... was distinctly unpleasant and menacing. He gazed into it, trying to recall the owner, but the effort was still too great. Then he became conscious that he was lying upon his back and that he was moving. Trees on his right and trees on his left, some distance ...

— The Sun Of Quebec - A Story of a Great Crisis • Joseph A. Altsheler

... dark, the unspeakable swarms, Clump'd together in masses, misshapen and vast; Here clung and here bristled the fashionless forms; Here the dark-moving bulk of the hammer-fish pass'd; And, with teeth grinning white, and a menacing motion, Went the terrible shark,—the hyena ...

— The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 • Ministry of Education

... sat down on the vacant space left at the outside. In his confusion he drew his hand across his brow, and snapped his fingers loudly in the silence. A few faces at the back wore a grin, and would have laughed had not Sandy, closing the door quietly, given them one menacing look which quelled their merriment. He was not going to have the "old man" made fun of in his extremity; and they all had respect enough for Sandy's fist not to run the risk of encountering it after the meeting was ...

— In the Midst of Alarms • Robert Barr

... had received a rude shock from another direction: east-north-east. Our cavalry, having unseen closed the northern exits from the town, suddenly swooped down and seized positions menacing the town from the east. Here some topographical details will be necessary. The only way to approach Beersheba from the desert is by crossing the steep-sided Wadi es Saba—from which the town and a small ...

— With Our Army in Palestine • Antony Bluett

... surrendered himself voluntarily at the gate of the King's Bench Prison, they threatened to attack the jail itself, kindled a fire under its walls, which was not extinguished without some danger, and day after day assembled in such tumultuous and menacing crowds, that at last Lord Weymouth, the Secretary of State, wrote a letter to the Surrey magistrates, enjoining them to abstain from no measures which might seem necessary for the preservation of peace, even if that could only ...

— The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860 • Charles Duke Yonge

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