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  • n  something that is a source of danger
  • n  a threat or the act of threatening
    he spoke with desperate menace
  • v  pose a threat to; present a danger to
  • v  express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture
    he menaced the bank manager with a stick
  • v  act in a threatening manner

  • Those three War-born little states on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea Estonia, Latvia and Lithuaniawould hardly seem a menace to anybody.
  • In recent years, the Canadian scholar Ronald Newton, in his masterly The "Nazi Menace" in Argentina, 1931-47 (Stanford), has suggested that much of the Nazi-fascist menace in .
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  • Hillary Rodham Clinton in USA Today
    Elements in Iran's government have become a menace, both to their own people and in the region,Clinton said.
  • Sherry Rehman in International Herald Tribune
    It is simply not consistent for anyone to demand aggressive action against the menace posed by the Iranian regime while at the same time acquiescing in a retreat from Iraq that would leave our worst enemies dramatically emboldened and Israel's best... Vice President Dick Cheney http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHymxtqqubcIN48tX54GpOGavPMUg USA Today http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-03-12-cheney-iraq_N.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHS2o6dL4V5phitMYgtQ3OUzZHV4w Mar 12, 2007 62724 83583 menace This is a historic moment for the country as the nation's representatives unanimously adopted a resolution," Information Minister Sherry Rehman said. "This will definitely help to improve the situation and to rid the country of the menace of...

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