Hypertext Webster Gateway: "menacing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Menace \Men"ace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Menaced} ([=a]st); p. pr.
& vb. n. {Menacing}.] [OF. menacier, F. menacer. See
{Menace}, n.]
1. 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.
My master . . . did menace me with death. --Shak.
2. To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.
By oath he menaced Revenge upon the cardinal.
--Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
menacing
adj : threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a
baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone
became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent";
"sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his
threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the
situation became ugly" [syn: {baleful}, {forbidding}, {minacious},
{minatory}, {ominous}, {sinister}, {threatening}, {ugly}]
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