Definitions for menace

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Spelling: [men-is]

IPA: /ˈmɛn ɪs/

Menace is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in menace (aceemn).

Definitions for menace

noun

1. something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat:
2. a person whose actions, attitudes, or ideas are considered dangerous or harmful:
3. an extremely annoying person.

verb (used with object)

1. to utter or direct a threat against; threaten.
2. to serve as a probable threat to; imperil.

verb (used without object)

1. to express or serve as a threat.

Origin of menace

1250-1300; Middle English Middle French Latin minācia, equivalent to mināc- (stem of mināx) jutting out, threatening + -ia -ia

Examples for menace

Hitchcock leans toward me in a conspiratorial, almost lascivious, way and says, “Let's pile on the menace.”

The menace and abuse was constant; it reads as a household under siege.

“I am convinced that the only way to fight this menace is by attacking it on many fronts,” he said in a letter to Congress.

Here on the Street, with its menace just across, he must live, that she might work.

Within the larger political backdrop, ISIS survived and grew into the menace that it is today.

There was a menace in Mary's voice under which the girl cringed again.

"You will hear from me again," he said, in a tone of menace.

But think not it is by way of menace, or to intimidate you to favour me.

When a man finds that a woman can reason,—do anything but feel,—he regards her as a menace.

Unbridled nationalism is a menace; it leads to trade wars and, all too often, real wars.