Menace

Noun

 * 1) a perceived threat or danger
 * 2) the act of threatening
 * 3) a dangerous person

Verb
(transitive or intransitive)


 * 1) to make threats (against someone); to intimidate
 * 2) to endanger someone or something; to imperil or jeopardize

Adjectives for Menace
triple; significant; constant; mingled; dismal; ever-fearful; ominous; positive; deadly; feeble; dangerous; international; wrathful; crushing; serious; perpetual; fierce; terrible; transparent; owl-eyed; enticing; subdued; black.

Verbs for Menace
avert—; banish—; conceal—; constitute—; denounce—; eradicate—; fear—; guard against—; harbor—; inveigh against—; invoke—; level—; share—; stamp out—; uncover—; ward off—; —endangers; —jeopardizes.

Adverbs for Menace
seriously; portentously; ominously; dismally; dangerously; perpetually; fiercely; blackly; morally; seductively.

Thesaurus
abuse, afflict, aggrieve, alarm, apprehend, approach, await, be imminent, be in store, befoul, bewitch, blight, bludgeon, bode, breakers ahead, brew, bulldoze, bulldozing, bully, cardhouse, cause for alarm, come on, comminate, commination, compromise, condemn, confront, corrupt, cow, crisis, croak, crucify, curse, damage, danger, dangerous ground, daunt, defile, denounce, denunciation, deprave, despoil, destroy, disadvantage, disserve, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, draw near, draw nigh, draw on, emergency, empty threat, endanger, endangerment, envenom, face, forebode, foreboding, forewarn, forthcome, frighten, gaping chasm, gather, gathering clouds, get into trouble, hang over, harass, harm, have a premonition, have a presentiment, hazard, hex, house of cards, hover, hurt, idle threat, imminence, impair, impend, imperil, imperilment, implied threat, infect, injure, intimidate, intimidation, jeopard, jeopardize, jeopardy, jinx, lie over, look black, look threatening, loom, lower, maltreat, mistreat, molest, near, outrage, overhang, pass, peril, persecute, pinch, play havoc with, play hob with, plight, poison, pollute, portend, preapprehend, predicament, prejudice, promise of harm, quicksand, risk, rocks ahead, savage, scare, scathe, storm clouds, strait, sword of Damocles, taint, terrify, terrorize, thin ice, threat, threaten, threateningness, threatfulness, torment, torture, utter threats against, violate, warn, warning, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong

Etymology 1
First attested ante 1300: from the manace:, menace:, from the  minacia:, from minax:, from minor:.

Etymology 2
First attested in 1303: from the menacer:, manecier:, manechier: and the  manasser:, from the assumed  *undefined:, from the  minacia:, whence the noun.

Noun

 * 1) threat