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Adjective menacing has 1 sense
- baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening, ugly - 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"
Antonym: unalarming (indirect, via alarming)
Verb menace has 3 senses
- endanger, jeopardize, jeopardise, menace, threaten, imperil, peril - pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops"
--1 is one way to exist, be
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot menace Sue
- menace - express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture; "he menaced the bank manager with a stick"
--2 is one way to express, show, evince
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- menace - act in a threatening manner; "A menacing person"
--3 is one way to act, behave, do
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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