verb
definition
To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.
example
to menace a country with war
definition
To threaten (an evil to be inflicted).
definition
To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize.
noun
definition
The act of making menaces or threats.
adjective
definition
Suggesting imminent harm.
definition
Threatening.
Examples of menacing in a Sentence
He picked up a menacing looking tool.
She growled in a deep, menacing voice.
Still more menacing became the political situation on the outbreak of the French Revolution.
He cultivated good relations with England, in view doubtless of Russia's menacing attitude.
It was a weary and famished, but still a fighting and menacing army.
His menacing growl chilled her more than any of the others'.
Somehow, we've gotten lost in a forest inhabited by goblins, spooky tho not actually menacing.
Lethal Vehicles - Gamers control menacing Battle Walkers that stalk the land and futuristic gunships that patrol the skies.
We then remembered that children's fairy tales at that time were very menacing - Grimm's fairly tales were horrifying and extremely moralistic.
Bonaparte's adjutant rode full gallop with this menacing letter to Murat.
Justin didn't realize that his new menacing appearance was the cause of his sad plight.
At a loss, he stood towering over Duva trying to look menacing.
Kids use the computer mouse to move their hooks and try to catch fish, while at the same time avoiding the menacing shark that stealthily moves through the waters.
You weren't at all menacing.
Taking a menacing step toward him, Jackson growled, "You think?"
Oddly, the sound seemed more melancholy than menacing.
Presumably it seemed necessary to assert them in the face of menacing figures like myself.
Check out their Dead Stroke line, featuring black tees with intimidating graphics that will make his game that much tougher and menacing.
The Terminator machines look menacing as you try to take them out with various weapons.
Beyond the walls of Aven, the ravage wilderness is teaming with menacing and powerful creatures.
Furthermore, because of these tunnels, the "head of the snake" is typically not available to you until they are nearly at the menacing skull.
Dark colors such as black and jewel tones of deep red, blue and green create a spooky, menacing aura for your creature of the night.
Weaver plays a man driving across the country and minding his own business when he is suddenly beset by a menacing truck; the driver of which seems intent on killing him at all costs.
Less magical and ethereal than either Chinese or Japanese dragons, Western dragons (taken from the beliefs of the Middle Ages) were far more likely to be ferocious and menacing.
Including a more menacing fairy into a motorcycle tattoo design lends a certain appeal to bikers.
An evil fairy atop a motorcycle, glaring into the distance, gives off a menacing feel.
The closing theme, It's Over, takes on a less menacing tone and makes for a satisfying conclusion.
Contemporaneously other events were menacing the ascendancy and exhausting the treasury of the republic. In 1453 Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks, and although Venice entered at once into treaty with the new power and desired to trade with it, not to fight with it, yet it was impossible that her possessions in the Levant and the archipelago should not eventually bring her into collision with the expanding energy of the Mussulman.
But the French had just before bombarded Algiers and Tripoli, even menacing Chios (Scio), where some pirates had put in with French captives; and the mediation of France was not very actively exercised.
And when relations with America were becoming critical and menacing in consequence of the depredations committed on American commerce by vessels issuing from British ports, he brought the question before the House of Commons in a series of speeches of rare clearness and force.
The United States government in September offered its good offices, but President Castro refused them, and the state of affairs became gradually more menacing.
It must have been composed in a time of natural gloom and depression, after Yahweh's anger had been provoked by "a very froward generation," certainly not before the Assyrian Empire had loomed up against the political horizon, aggressive and menacing.
Solid and menacing, the man across from her was staring at her as if trying to determine if she was edible.
Life with the Yorkshiremen always carried menacing undertones and Everton were on a short fuse, fully wound up and all ready to go.
As the men were evidently determined to oppose any attempt at landing, a musket was discharged between them, in the hope that they would be frightened by the noise, but it produced no effect beyond causing one of them to drop his bundle of spears, of which, however, he immediately repossessed himself, and with his comrade resumed the same menacing attitude.
For a time Bela was equally fortunate in the north-west,where the ambitious and enterprising Piemyslidae had erected a new Bohemian empire which absorbed the territories of the old Babenbergers and was very menacing to Hungary.
Firstly, he doubted whether the allies were strong enough to attack the Quadrilateral, for he saw the defects of his own armys organization; secondly, he began to fear intervention by Prussia, whose attitude appeared menacing; thirdly, although really anxious to expel the Austrians from Italy, he did not wish to create a too powerful Italian state at the foot of the Alps, which, besides constituting a potential danger to France, might threaten the popes temporal power, and Napoleon believed that he could not stand without the clerical vote; fourthly, the war had been declared against the wishes of the great majority of Frenchmen and was even now far from popular.
A menacing letter was despatched by Sunderland to shake the firmness of the university; but, though humble and respectful explanations were returned, the university showed no sign of compliance, nor even of a desire to suggest a compromise.
The ancient cannon, which look seaward, wear a very menacing expression; but I doubt if there is any unkindness in their rusty old hearts.
As he approached the Kremlin he even began to avoid being crushed and resolutely stuck out his elbows in a menacing way.
In late 2009, Sheen was arrested for domestic violence and charged with menacing, assault, and criminal mischief.
On Christmas Day 2009, Sheen was arrested and charged with felony menacing, third-degree assault and criminal mischief when police were called to the home he shared with Mueller.
There are cheats for all kinds of things - skipping levels, giving you skills and possessions you never earned, making you invulnerable or terribly weak, and making in-game characters look distorted or menacing, to name but a few.
The enemy, however, is much more menacing and bold; running away around corners only to charge back teeth bared with a raised bayonet when I let my guard down; hiding effectively and flanking at the perfect time.
The are often caught in in thought casting a menacing look across the stark landscape, or wielding a sword or sitting on their steed.
Now, mostly bound to its banks by ice, the river looked much less menacing as it wound its way downward.
Xander's menacing growl came from low in his chest.
In 1578 he was created baron of Clogher and earl of Clanconnell for life; but on the outbreak of rebellion in Munster his attitude again became menacing, and for the next few years he continued to intrigue against the English authorities.
With these may be named the demon lantern-bearers, so perfect in the grotesque treatment of the diabolical heads and the accurate anatomical forms of the sturdy body and limbs; the colossal temple guardians of the great gate of Tdai-ji, by Unkei and Kwaikei (11th century), somewhat conventionalized, but still bearing evidence of direct study from nature, and inspired with intense energy of action; and the smaller but more accurately modelled temple guardians in the Saikondo, Nara, which almost compare with the fighting gladiator in their realization of menacing strength.
His behaviour to his wife continued to be brutal and menacing, and he went on as before offending the national sentiment of the Russian people.