menace
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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 .