Menace1. (n.) A threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
2. (n.) 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. (n.) To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.
4. (v. i.) To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.
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