Menace
noun
A person or thing that is likely to cause harm or danger.
These insects will become a menace to crops if not controlled.
Often appears as...
- public menace
- health menace
verb
To threaten to cause harm or danger to someone or something.
The problem is menacing the stability of the region.
Often appears as...
- menace someone
- menace something
noun
A person or thing that is likely to cause harm or danger.
These insects will become a menace to crops if not controlled.
Often appears as...
- public menace
- health menace
verb
To threaten to cause harm or danger to someone or something.
The problem is menacing the stability of the region.
Often appears as...
- menace someone
- menace something
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word 'menace' carries a negative meaning, implying trouble or irritation.
That noisy dog next door is a real menace.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Physical Only
'Menace' is used for non-physical threats, like a policy that harms society.
The new law is a menace to our personal freedoms.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotionally Charged
Using 'menace' suggests strong feelings about the harm or annoyance caused.
He felt the rising pollution was a menace to the city's charm.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word 'menace' carries a negative meaning, implying trouble or irritation.
That noisy dog next door is a real menace.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Physical Only
'Menace' is used for non-physical threats, like a policy that harms society.
The new law is a menace to our personal freedoms.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotionally Charged
Using 'menace' suggests strong feelings about the harm or annoyance caused.
He felt the rising pollution was a menace to the city's charm.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word 'menace' carries a negative meaning, implying trouble or irritation.
That noisy dog next door is a real menace.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Physical Only
'Menace' is used for non-physical threats, like a policy that harms society.
The new law is a menace to our personal freedoms.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotionally Charged
Using 'menace' suggests strong feelings about the harm or annoyance caused.
He felt the rising pollution was a menace to the city's charm.
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Video examples
The voices in my head PIPE...
Now essentially, this represented taking an aggressive stance towards my own mind, a kind of psychic civil war, and in turn this caused the number of voices to increase and grow progressively hostile and menacing. Helplessly and hopelessly, I began to retreat into this nightmarish inner world
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The terrors of sleep...
You're dreaming and your muscles are paralyzed, only your brain is conscious and wide awake. This is what causes you to imagine that you're having an encounter with a menacing presence. So this explains the hallucinations, but what about the feelings of panic, strangling, choking,
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What I learned from 100...
I saw dead people. But then I saw this guy. You know, he wasn't that menacing. He was a chubby, loveable guy, and he even asked me, "Why?" In fact, he invited me to explain myself. And I could've said many things. I could've explained, I could've negotiated.
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A Black man goes...
I have spent so much time defending myself against attempts to demonize me and make me apologize for who I am, trying to portray me as something that I'm not, some kind of thug or gangster, a menace to society. Unexpected compassion. Wow.
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Beyond the edge of the...
made sure we collected it brought it up it became it's a new family of crowns and it has become a really special animal in the deep sea world this is some rather menacing perspective interpretation of this craft by Lily
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The habits of happiness...
Look at anger itself. It looks very menacing, like a billowing monsoon cloud or thunderstorm. We think we could sit on the cloud, but if you go there, it's just mist. Likewise, if you look at the thought of anger,
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Island Volcano Menace PIPE...
came for a month and checked it out and it was just like they said and we never left but beneath this tropical Garden of Eden lies a hidden menace the lush vegetation and productive soil
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Octopus Kills Shark PIPE...
menacing on the prowl just itching to use those rows of teeth to crush its next meal I've got a feeling this real-life version of Jaws isn't going to
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Shark vs Octopus PIPE...
menacing on the prowl just itching to use those rows of teeth to crush its next meal I've got a feeling this real-life version of Jaws isn't going to
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Diver Has Lucky Escape...
This animal is standing up. Menacing, threatening, alert. I'm really not comfortable being so close to him.
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The voices in my head PIPE...
Now essentially, this represented taking an aggressive stance towards my own mind, a kind of psychic civil war, and in turn this caused the number of voices to increase and grow progressively hostile and menacing. Helplessly and hopelessly, I began to retreat into this nightmarish inner world
Video examples
The terrors of sleep...
You're dreaming and your muscles are paralyzed, only your brain is conscious and wide awake. This is what causes you to imagine that you're having an encounter with a menacing presence. So this explains the hallucinations, but what about the feelings of panic, strangling, choking,
Video examples
What I learned from 100...
I saw dead people. But then I saw this guy. You know, he wasn't that menacing. He was a chubby, loveable guy, and he even asked me, "Why?" In fact, he invited me to explain myself. And I could've said many things. I could've explained, I could've negotiated.
Video examples
A Black man goes...
I have spent so much time defending myself against attempts to demonize me and make me apologize for who I am, trying to portray me as something that I'm not, some kind of thug or gangster, a menace to society. Unexpected compassion. Wow.
Video examples
Beyond the edge of the...
made sure we collected it brought it up it became it's a new family of crowns and it has become a really special animal in the deep sea world this is some rather menacing perspective interpretation of this craft by Lily
Video examples
The habits of happiness...
Look at anger itself. It looks very menacing, like a billowing monsoon cloud or thunderstorm. We think we could sit on the cloud, but if you go there, it's just mist. Likewise, if you look at the thought of anger,
Video examples
Island Volcano Menace PIPE...
came for a month and checked it out and it was just like they said and we never left but beneath this tropical Garden of Eden lies a hidden menace the lush vegetation and productive soil
Video examples
Octopus Kills Shark PIPE...
menacing on the prowl just itching to use those rows of teeth to crush its next meal I've got a feeling this real-life version of Jaws isn't going to
Video examples
Shark vs Octopus PIPE...
menacing on the prowl just itching to use those rows of teeth to crush its next meal I've got a feeling this real-life version of Jaws isn't going to
Video examples
Diver Has Lucky Escape...
This animal is standing up. Menacing, threatening, alert. I'm really not comfortable being so close to him.
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Quote examples
Franklin Foer
American Writer
Google's ability to pick winners and losers in the information world is a menace. These companies have the ability to determine which media companies are successful and which ones are failures. If I adopt a business plan that doesn't line up with Google's, then they're not going to reward me.
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Dave Bautista
American Actor
I'm not a big guy. I'm not a menacing guy. I'm not an intimidating guy. I may look that way, but just spend two seconds talking to me, and you know that's not who I am - not as a person, as a character. It's not who I intend to be.
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Chris Van Allsburg
American Author
In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.
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Matthew Desmond
American Sociologist
The home is the center of life - a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets, a place to be ourselves.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
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Pete Hoekstra
American Politician
A wounded Qaddafi still in power would be an ongoing threat and menace to the rest of the world.
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Christian de Duve
Belgian Scientist
In spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before.
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Gregory Corso
American Poet
The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.
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Joyce Carol Oates
American Novelist
The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
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Paul P. Harris
American Lawyer
Ignorance is a menace to peace.
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Franklin Foer
American Writer
Google's ability to pick winners and losers in the information world is a menace. These companies have the ability to determine which media companies are successful and which ones are failures. If I adopt a business plan that doesn't line up with Google's, then they're not going to reward me.
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Dave Bautista
American Actor
I'm not a big guy. I'm not a menacing guy. I'm not an intimidating guy. I may look that way, but just spend two seconds talking to me, and you know that's not who I am - not as a person, as a character. It's not who I intend to be.
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Chris Van Allsburg
American Author
In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.
Quote examples
Matthew Desmond
American Sociologist
The home is the center of life - a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets, a place to be ourselves.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Quote examples
Pete Hoekstra
American Politician
A wounded Qaddafi still in power would be an ongoing threat and menace to the rest of the world.
Quote examples
Christian de Duve
Belgian Scientist
In spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before.
Quote examples
Gregory Corso
American Poet
The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.
Quote examples
Joyce Carol Oates
American Novelist
The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
Quote examples
Paul P. Harris
American Lawyer
Ignorance is a menace to peace.
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