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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of menace.
  • adjective subject to menaces; threatened

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Examples

  • I don't buy that being chased or menaced is a daily occurrence for Erica or anyone else in the least.

    There Are Reasons to Support Burgess’ Panhandling Crackdown « PubliCola 2010

  • Perhaps “Now the land is once again menaced by the shadow of fear.”

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » (Updated) These six openings usually fail 2008

  • A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.

    President Lincoln's Inaugural Address 1861

  • It is alleged that at various addresses - including a McDonald's restaurant in the city's Argyle Street - he "menaced" the man by sending a text claiming to be Miss Shah's abductors and making threats to kill Mr Shah and his wife unless he followed instructions.

    The Daily Record - Home 2009

  • Practically alone in the world, save for Billy, it was her life, and his, and their mutual love-life, that was menaced.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • While they philosophized about it he was living it, placing the strong hand of his race firmly on the shoulders of the lesser breeds that laboured on Berande or menaced it from afar.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • Mugridge menaced with the knife he was sharpening for me.

    Chapter 9 2010

  • The same sort of spell is woven by this story, loosely based on real events, of eight Christian monks menaced by Islamic terrorists in the Algeria of the 1990s.

    'Of Gods': Divine Beauty, Terror, Faith Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • Newfoundland and half Hudson Bay, stood over the body of the man that lay on the trail, and menaced Morganson with bristling hair and bared fangs.

    FINIS 2010

  • His intellect, and the craft thereof, favored the slow and cautious meeting with the thing that menaced and which he could not see.

    All Gold Canon 2010

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  • If I had a great deal to do I had still more to think about, and the moment came when my occupations were gravely menaced by my thoughts.

    --Henry James, 1896, The Way it Came

    November 19, 2009