menace

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A possible danger; a threat: the menace of nuclear war.
2. n. The act of threatening.
3. n. A troublesome or annoying person: a toddler who was a menace in a shop full of crystal.
4. v. To utter threats against.
5. v. To constitute a threat to; endanger.
6. v. To make threats.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A threat or threatening; the declaration or indication of a hostile intention, or of a probable evil to come.
2. n. Synonyms See the verb.
3. 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.
4. To hold out threats of; indicate the danger or risk of.
5. 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.
6. To be threatening; indicate danger or coming harm; threaten.

Wiktionary

1. n. a perceived threat or danger
2. n. the act of threatening
3. n. an annoying and bothersome person
4. v. to make threats (against someone); to intimidate
5. v. to endanger someone or something; to imperil or jeopardize

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
2. 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.
3. v. To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.
4. v. To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. pose a threat to; present a danger to
2. v. act in a threatening manner
3. n. a threat or the act of threatening
4. n. something that is a source of danger
5. v. express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture