MENACE meaning: Threat causing fear or danger

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word menace:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

menace: Merriam-Webster.com
menace: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
menace: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
menace: Collins English Dictionary
menace: Vocabulary.com
Menace, menace: Wordnik
menace: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
menace: Wiktionary
menace: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
menace: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
menace: Infoplease Dictionary
menace: Dictionary.com
menace (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
menace: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Menace (Atlas Comics), Menace (Greek settlement), Menace (Marvel Comics), Menace (Marvel Comics character), Menace (video game), Menace, The Menace (album), The Menace (newspaper): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Menace: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
menace: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
menace: Rhymezone
menace, menace (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
menace: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
menace: Free Dictionary
menace: Mnemonic Dictionary
menace: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (5 matching dictionaries)

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Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
menace: Legal dictionary
menace: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

menace: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Menace: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A perceived threat or danger.
▸ noun:  The act of threatening.
▸ noun:  (informal) An annoying and bothersome person or thing.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.
▸ verb:  To threaten (an evil to be inflicted).
▸ verb:  To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize.

Opposite:

ally, friend, helper

Types:

danger, threat, hazard, peril, risk, more...

Phrases:

menace reflex, Dennis the Menace, Menace II Society, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, Dennis the Menace and Gnasher, more...

Adjectives:

serious, constant, real, communist, german, greatest, red, grave, potential, public, russian

Colors:

black, red, dark gray, blood red, charcoal, more...

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