Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.
- 4intransitive verb
To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.
- 5noun
a threat or the act of threatening
"he spoke with desperate menace"
- 6noun
something that is a source of danger
"earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan"
Synonyms
- 7verb
act in a threatening manner
"A menacing person"
- 8verb
express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture
"he menaced the bank manager with a stick"
- 9verb
pose a threat to; present a danger to
"The pollution is endangering the crops"
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