menace

menace is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.
4. intransitive verb. To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.
5. noun. a threat or the act of threatening

   "he spoke with desperate menace"

6. noun. something that is a source of danger

   "earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan"

   Synonyms: threat

7. verb. act in a threatening manner

   "A menacing person"

8. verb. express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture

   "he menaced the bank manager with a stick"

9. verb. pose a threat to; present a danger to

   "The pollution is endangering the crops"

   Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, peril, threaten

Synonyms

threat, endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, peril, threaten

Common word forms

menaced, menacer, menaces, menacing, menaceful, menaceable, menacement

Words from these letters

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