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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Menace \Men"ace\ (m[e^]n"[asl]s; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Menaced ([=a]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Menacing.] [OF. menacier, F. menacer. See Menace, n.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] My master . . . did menace me with death. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted. [1913 Webster] By oath he menaced Revenge upon the cardinal. --Shak. [1913 Webster]From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Menace \Men"ace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Menaced ([=a]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Menacing.] [OF. menacier, F. menacer. See Menace, n.] 1. 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. My master . . . did menace me with death. --Shak. 2. To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted. By oath he menaced Revenge upon the cardinal. --Shak.From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
menacing adj : threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "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" [syn: baleful, forbidding, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening, ugly]From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
menacing a. (synonym of en threatening) ''in its various senses''. n. The act of making menaces or threats. vb. (present participle of en menace nocat=1)From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
menacing a. (synonym of en threatening) ''in its various senses''. n. The act of making menaces or threats. vb. (present participle of en menace nocat=1)From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
menacing a. (synonym of en threatening) ''in its various senses''. n. The act of making menaces or threats. vb. (present participle of en menace nocat=1)From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
menacing a. (synonym of en threatening) ''in its various senses''. n. The act of making menaces or threats. vb. (present participle of en menace nocat=1)From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
menacing Engelska a. (avledning en menace ordform=prespart) Engelska vb. (böjning en verb menace)From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Menacing /mˈɛnɪsɪŋ/ التهديدFrom English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
menacing /mˈɛnɪsɪŋ/From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]ohrožující
menacing /mˈɛnɪsɪŋ/From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]hrozivý
menacing /mˈɛnɪsɪŋ/ bedrohend see: menace sb./sth., menaced, menaces, menacedFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
menacing /mˈɛnɪsɪŋ/From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 : [ freedict:eng-ell ]bedrohlich
menacing /mˈɛnɪsɪŋ/ απειλητικόςFrom English-French FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.6 : [ freedict:eng-fra ]
menacing /menəsiŋ/ sinistreFrom English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 : [ freedict:eng-hin ]
menacing /mˈɛnɪsɪŋ/From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:eng-hun ]1. डरावना "The monster in the movie was menacing."
menacing /mˈɛnɪsɪŋ/ fenyegetôFrom English-Dutch FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:eng-nld ]
menacing /menəsiŋ/ 1. dreigend, bedreigendFrom English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:eng-pol ]
menacing /ˈmenɪsɪŋ/From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]groźny
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]/ˈmɛnəsɪŋ/
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "menacing": about to be, abusive, alarming, already in sight, apocalyptic, approaching, at hand, bad, baleful, baneful, black, bludgeoning, blustering, bodeful, boding, brewing, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, chancy, close, close at hand, coming, comminatory, critical, dangerous, dangersome, dark, denunciatory, dire, doomful, dreary, evil, evil-starred, explosive, fateful, fear-inspiring, foreboding, forthcoming, fraught with danger, frightening, future, gathering, gloomy, going to happen, hazardous, hectoring, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, in danger imminent, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, inauspicious, instant, intimidating, jeopardous, looming, lowering, lurking, minacious, minatory, near, near at hand, nearing, of evil portent, ominous, on the horizon, overhanging, parlous, periculous, perilous, portending, portentous, preparing, risky, serious, sinister, somber, terrifying, terroristic, terrorizing, that will be, threatening, threatful, to come, ugly, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untoward, upcoming, waiting