Menace

·noun To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.

II. Menace ·vi To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.

III. Menace ·noun The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.

IV. Menace ·noun 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.