menace
/ˈmɛnɪs/ verb C2- To make threats against (someone); to intimidate. · to menace a country with war
- To threaten (an evil to be inflicted).
- To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize.
He/she/it menaces · Past menaced · Past participle menaced · -ing form menacing
Verb forms
- Base form
- menace
- He/she/it
- menaces
- Past
- menaced
- Past participle
- menaced
- -ing form
- menacing
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According to your idea, there was never any hidden menace, or secret society, or Valley of Fear, or Boss MacSomebody, or anything else.
Its light shone upon his strong, resolute, clean-shaved face and his menacing eyes.
The Count's knotted brows gathered more heavily over his menacing eyes.
"You can't bluff me, Count Sylvius." Holmes's eyes, as he gazed at him, contracted and lightened until they were like two menacing points of steel.
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