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n. A possible danger; a threat: the menace of nuclear war.

n. The act of threatening.

n. A troublesome or annoying person: a toddler who was a menace in a shop full of crystal.

v. To utter threats against.

v. To constitute a threat to; endanger.

verb-intransitive. To make threats.

n. a perceived threat or danger

n. the act of threatening

n. an annoying and bothersome person

v. to make threats (against someone); to intimidate

v. to endanger someone or something; to imperil or jeopardize

n. The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.

v. 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.

v. To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.

verb-intransitive. To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.

n. A threat or threatening; the declaration or indication of a hostile intention, or of a probable evil to come.

n. Synonyms See the verb.

To threaten; hold out a threat against; express a hostile intention toward, or indicate danger to: followed by with before the threatened evil when expressed: as, the storm menaced the ship with destruction.

To hold out threats of; indicate the danger or risk of.

Synonyms Menace, Threaten. Threaten is of very general application, in both great and little things: as, to be threatened with a cold; a threatening cloud; to threaten an attack along the whole line. Threaten is used with infinitives, especially of action, but menace is not: as, to threaten to come, to punish. Menace belongs to dignified style and matters of moment.

To be threatening; indicate danger or coming harm; threaten.

v. pose a threat to; present a danger to

v. act in a threatening manner

n. a threat or the act of threatening

n. something that is a source of danger

v. express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture

"Similar warnings are being issued across the country as Republican presidential candidates, elected officials and activists mobilize against what they describe as the menace of Islamic law in the United States."

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