0 past simple and past participle of menace
1 If someone or something menaces a person or thing, he, she, or it threatens seriously to harm it:
And the consequences of this operation menaced, besides the dogmas of faith, the whole foundation of traditional knowledge.
The new historicists thus menaced much that was held dear: the thrust for contextualization threatened to devalue the currency, turning sound into silence.
Trucks of the streets and sewers departments were used in moving the flood menaced families to various school houses located on higher grounds.
For thinkers in these modes, there is an intrinsic connection between the notion of a polity and the idea that it is made or menaced by successions of particular events.
More than 200 firemen fought valiantly through the night as flames leaping 150 feet menaced some 25,000 tons of oil.
Our coastlines and beaches are, therefore, likely to be menaced for years to come.
To-day the gasworks is being menaced by subsidence, and additional expenditure will have to be made.
I hope that the direct grant schools will not, in fact, be menaced but will be able to make their contribution without fear or favour.
