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Meaning menace meaning

What does menace mean?
Definitions in simple English

menace Noun

— A menace is a serious danger. smoking is a menace to society. This man poses a menace to himself and his family.

menace Verb

— If you menace somebody, you try to make them feel unsafe. He began carrying a gun and menacing his neighbours.

menace

— noun (= threat) something that is a source of danger earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan — noun a threat or the act of threatening he spoke with desperate menace — verb express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture he menaced the bank manager with a stick — verb (= endanger) pose a threat to; present a danger to The pollution is endangering the crops — verb act in a threatening manner A menacing person

Synonyms menace synonyms

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menace English » English

threaten threat intimidate frighten terrorize danger scare intimidation bully peril imperil endanger loom browbeat pressure jeopardize jeopardise hector force coerce tyrannize torment spectre scold hound harry harass dragoon compel bludgeon upbraid threatening terrorism terror terrify tell off storm spy scarecrow roar risk reprove reproach reprimand rebuke rage power point pain in the neck opponent

Topics menace topics

What do people use menace to talk about?
Language and thought Want Influence

Threaten

Conjugation menace conjugation

How do you conjugate menace?

menace · verb

Examples menace examples

How do I use menace in a sentence?

Simple sentences

This kind of bomb is a serious menace to mankind.
These people see us as a menace.

Movie subtitles

Nothing but a menace to the roads, if you ask me.
Surely gang rule and law defiance are more of a menace to the nation than the regulation of oil or a bullfight.
Anyone constituting a menace to our organization is to be eliminated without exception.
I'll agree that Judge Shaw is a serious menace to our organization but Mr. Loder and I have, uh, decided to give him attention.
He's a menace to society and should be confined to an institution.
That dogs a menace.
Trouble is, when the real Red Menace shows up the sheriff will still be crying wolf.
Mr. Mayor, please, is there a Red Menace or ain't there?
And gentlemen, Morgan has proved himself. unable to meet the menace of his old friends, the pirates.
The submarine menace has been removed.
It's not that I don't trust you, but when you're in love at my age. every man that looks at your woman is a menace.
Kringle's been declared a menace by competent doctors.
I must tell you, miss, Johnny is what you call a menace to society.
How's the Meadowville menace doin'?
That dog's a menace. I'm taking him to make sure he's destroyed.
But he's a menace.
Think Kitty, the cutthroats of the world menace us all.
And London, all England for that matter, was saved from the terrible menace of the Giant Rat of Sumatra.
As long as he's alive, he's a menace to every ranch in this county.
He's a menace to the whole civilized world.
Think about it. Harry's a menace.
You menace!
I knew I remembered that face. I got a bad feeling the second I saw you. You're a menace.
What measures can we take to neutralise this menace from another world?
This spaceman, or whatever he is. We automatically assume he's a menace.
He's a public menace.
Please understand that my presence in your house will not be a menace, but a protection.
That dog's a menace.
Trouble is, when the real red menace shows, the sheriff will still be cryin' wolf.
Is there a red menace or ain't there?
The flame that once was our delight and menace in our chests no longer burns.
People are so full of menace that they're always ready to believe gossip.
That is a menace.
I said talking pictures were a menace, but no one would listen.
You're a big menace!
He is a menace to society!
You see, once you begin to grow, you become a menace to the body and you'll trigger them off.
But you haven't convinced anyone that this particular project is a menace to the safety of the world.
Mr. Mudd, you're charged with galaxy travel without a flight plan, without an identification beam, and failure to answer a starship's signal, thus a menace to navigation.

News and current affairs

Despite having conquered inflation, central bankers continue to fight it and as a result may fail to confront the latest economic menace - global deflation.
Turkey is a member of the coalition against Daesh, and we are seeking to degrade and destroy this terrorist menace in our country and beyond our borders.
We see the menace of this tendency constantly nowadays, but we perceive it in such a seemingly unthreatening way that we may well become accustomed to it rather than arresting it.
Cartels, anti-competitive invoicing practices, senselessly closed professions, and a bureaucracy that has traditionally turned the state into a public menace would soon discover that our government is their worst foe.
Indeed, when asked by Bush to look into the matter, America's National Academy of Sciences came to a resounding verdict (the only one they could honestly reach) that greenhouse gases are a menace.
Following Moldova's example, all countries should also ensure that law-enforcement officers are properly trained to respond to the menace of nuclear terrorism.
Intelligence, diplomacy, security forces, and educating people to the requirements of life lived under the shadow of an invisible menace must all be brought to bear.
In the late 1940's and the 1950's, the Cold War and fears that the Red Menace would sap American resolve from within led to myriad anti-subversive programs, with tens of thousands of Americans losing their livelihoods as a result.
Why is this menace a matter of grave concern in Japan today, and a threat worth worrying about in the US?
Indeed, while the menace of misconduct has been exaggerated, we have to rethink how we conduct science - its values, virtues, and shortcomings.
Globalization and Islam are not incompatible, so long as Islam is recognized as a tradition that has much to contribute to world civilization, not treated as a menace to be neutralized.
And it is a menace, both for the harm that it does directly and for the damaging division and sectarianism that it nurtures indirectly.
And the menace of war is followed by a raft of social, environmental, geopolitical, technological, and economic risks and trends.
By contrast, Russia may become more of a menace due to the decline in oil prices.
Indeed, the menace that now confronts us is not public debt or inflation, but a downward economic spiral that will be increasingly difficult to reverse.
And it is a menace, both for the harm that it does directly and for the damaging division and sectarianism that it nurtures indirectly. Every killing is a human tragedy.
Such misallocation of resources was not just a menace of the interwar period.
In less than 45 days in 2001, we Afghans were freed from the menace of terrorism and the Taliban.
The big private equity funds have proven to be a menace to healthy companies, to workers' rights, and to the European Union's Lisbon Agenda (aimed at making Europe the world's most competitive economy).
Still, there are times when pacifism, even in Germany, is an inadequate response to a serious menace.

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