Word Meanings - MENACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come. His commands, his rebukes, his menaces. Milman. The dark menace of the distant war. Dryden. (more info) acis, projecting,

Additional info about word: MENACE

The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come. His commands, his rebukes, his menaces. Milman. The dark menace of the distant war. Dryden. (more info) acis, projecting, threatening, minae projecting points or pinnacles,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MENACE)

• Confront
• Oppose
• face
• encounter
• resist
• intimidate
• menace
• Threat
• Menace
• browbeating
• denunciation
• intimidation

Related words: (words related to MENACE)

• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• ENCOUNTERER
  One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
• CONFRONTATION
  Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• BROWBEATING
  The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, suspercilious manners, or confident assertions. The imperious browbeating and scorn of great men. L'Estrange.
• THREATEN
  1. To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
• CONFRONTE
  See AFFRONTé
• CONFRONTMENT
  The act of confronting; the state of being face to face.
• INTIMIDATE
  To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson. Syn. -- To dishearten; dispirit; abash;
• THREAT
  The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; meance; threatening; denunciation. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. Shak. (more info) irdriozan, Icel. to fail,
• CONFRONTER
  One who confronts. A confronter in authority. Speed.
• RESISTANT
  Making resistance; resisting. -- n.
• THREATFUL
  Full of threats; having a menacing appearance. Spenser. -- Threat"ful*ly, adv.
• RESIST
  1. To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct. That mortal dint, Save He who reigns above, none can resist. Milton. 2. To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose. God resisteth the proud.
• BROWBEAT
  To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses. My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten.
• MENACER
  One who menaces.
• RESISTLESS
  1. Having no power to resist; making no opposition. Spenser. 2. Incapable of being resisted; irresistible. Masters' commands come with a power resistless To such as owe them absolute subjection. Milton. -- Re*sist"less*ly, adv. -- Re*sist"less*ness,
• OPPOSE
  1. To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit. Her grace sat down . . . In a rich chair of state; opposing freely The beauty of her person to the people. Shak. 2. To put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance
• RESISTANCE
  The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through
• RESISTING
  Making resistance; opposing; as, a resisting medium. -- Re*sist"ing ly, adv.
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• UNRESISTED
  1. Not resisted; unopposed. Bentley. 2. Resistless; as, unresisted fate. Pope.
• IRRESISTIBLENESS
  Quality of being irrestible.
• IRRESISTIBLE
  That can not be successfully resisted or opposed; superior to opposition; resistless; overpowering; as, an irresistible attraction. An irresistible law of our nature impels us to seek happiness. J. M. Mason.
• IRRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission.