All menace synonyms
menΒ·ace
M m verb menace
- bother β If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
- terrorize β to fill or overcome with terror.
- intimidate β to make timid; fill with fear.
- jeopardize β to put in jeopardy; hazard; risk; imperil: He jeopardized his life every time he dived from the tower.
- imperil β to put in peril or danger; endanger.
- threaten β to utter a threat against; menace: He threatened the boy with a beating.
- lower β to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
- peril β exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger: They faced the peril of falling rocks.
- risk β exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance: It's not worth the risk.
- impend β to be imminent; be about to happen.
- alarm β Alarm is a feeling of fear or anxiety that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
- hazard β an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- portend β to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does: The street incident may portend a general uprising.
- loom β loon1 .
- compromise β A compromise is a situation in which people accept something slightly different from what they really want, because of circumstances or because they are considering the wishes of other people.
- overhang β to hang or be suspended over: A great chandelier overhung the ballroom.
- spook β Informal. a ghost; specter.
- torment β to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
- chill β When you chill something or when it chills, you lower its temperature so that it becomes colder but does not freeze.
- scare β to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- browbeat β If someone tries to browbeat you, they try to force you to do what they want.
- bully β A bully is someone who uses their strength or power to hurt or frighten other people.
- lean on β to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
- push around β to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- endanger β Put (someone or something) at risk or in danger.
- jeopardise β to put in jeopardy; hazard; risk; imperil: He jeopardized his life every time he dived from the tower.
- hang over β to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- frighten β to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- terrorise β to fill or overcome with terror.
- pick on β to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
noun menace
- threat β a declaration of an intention or determination to inflict punishment, injury, etc., in retaliation for, or conditionally upon, some action or course; menace: He confessed under the threat of imprisonment.
- danger β Danger is the possibility that someone may be harmed or killed.
- jeopardy β hazard or risk of or exposure to loss, harm, death, or injury: For a moment his life was in jeopardy.
- plague β French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
- annoyance β Annoyance is the feeling that you get when someone makes you feel fairly angry or impatient.
- caution β Caution is great care which you take in order to avoid possible danger.
- commination β the act or an instance of threatening punishment or vengeance
- intimidation β to make timid; fill with fear.
- nuisance β an obnoxious or annoying person, thing, condition, practice, etc.: a monthly meeting that was more nuisance than pleasure.
- thunder β a loud, explosive, resounding noise produced by the explosive expansion of air heated by a lightning discharge.
- trouble β to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- troublemaker β a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- warning β the act or utterance of one who warns or the existence, appearance, sound, etc., of a thing that warns.
- pain in the neck β source of annoyance
- pest β a city in and the capital of Hungary, in the central part, on the Danube River: formed 1873 from two cities on the W bank of the Danube (Buda and Obuda) and one on the E bank (Pest)
- thorn in one's side β a sharp excrescence on a plant, especially a sharp-pointed aborted branch; spine; prickle.