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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
menacing
    adj 1: 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" [syn: baleful, forbidding,
           menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous,
           sinister, threatening]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Menace \Men"ace\ (m[e^]n"[asl]s; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   Menaced ([=a]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Menacing.] [OF.
   menacier, F. menacer. See Menace, n.]
   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.
      [1913 Webster]

            My master . . . did menace me with death. --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.
      [1913 Webster]

            By oath he menaced
            Revenge upon the cardinal.            --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for menacing:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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