Menace Definition

mĕnĭs

menaced, menaces, menacing

noun

menaces

A threat or the act of threatening.

Webster's New World

Anything threatening harm or evil.

Webster's New World

A person who is a nuisance.

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verb

menaced, menaces, menacing

To threaten or be a danger (to)

Webster's New World

To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.

To menace a country with war.

Wiktionary

To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize.

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Other Word Forms of Menace

Singular:

menace

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Middle English from Old French from Vulgar Latin minācia sing. of Latin mināciae threats, menaces from mināx mināc- threatening from minārī to threaten from minae threats men-² in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
First attested in 1303: from the Old French menacer, manecier, manechier and the Anglo-Norman manasser, from the assumed Vulgar Latin *mināciāre, from the Latin minācia, whence the noun.

From Wiktionary
First attested ante 1300: from the Old French manace, menace, from the Latin minācia, from minax (“threatening"), from minor (“I threaten").

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