Menace /(mĕn"ā̇s; 48)/

1. The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.

   His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his menaces.

   The dark menace of the distant war.

imp. & p. p. Menaced; p. pr. & vb. n. Menacing

1. 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; as, to menace a country with war.

   My master . . . did menace me with death.

2. To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.

   By oath he menaced Revenge upon the cardinal.

1. To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.

   Who ever knew the heavens menace so?