menace
men·ace (men′əs)
noun
- a threat or the act of threatening
- anything threatening harm or evil
- Informal a person who is a nuisance
Etymology: OFr < L minacia < minax (gen. minacis), projecting, threatening < minari, to threaten < minae, threats, orig. projecting points of walls < IE base *men-, to project > Cornish meneth, mountain
menace
n.
Preposition: of
- bus: Here are some of my latest articles: The menace of bendy busses Should speed limits be reduced?
- terrorism: Both sides fully agreed on the need to combat the menace of terrorism.
Converse of object
- brood: I guess there must have been an atmosphere of brooding menace, or something.
- lurk: It was traditional in form but beneath the surface there lurked a quiet menace - as exemplified in poems such as The Horses.
- combat: Both sides fully agreed on the need to combat the menace of terrorism.
- tackle: What's needed is a raft of co-ordinated measures to tackle this modern menace.
- grow: Here the gathered nobles allied themselves to fight the growing menace of the pagan Danes, the Vikings.
- pose: Tho one is well aware of the menace posed by pedophiles, there are occasions when rules become nonsensical.
Adjective modifier
- phantom: May 2001: " Phantom Menace " Wandsworth Guardian.
- Nazi: Their romance is idyllic but the growing Nazi menace is about to change their lives forever.
- alien: That's what wind turbines are: an alien menace not welcome on our shores or hills.
- fascist: It tells the story of a competition between two shopkeepers and neighbors, until the fascist menace makes them become friends.
- deadly: The main fraud was the notion that marihuana was a deadly menace.
- constant: Burke was a constant menace throughout the game setting up both goals.
Noun used with modifier
- U-boat: Churchill set up a Battle of the Atlantic committee to look for answers to the U-boat menace.
In our lore, the Jewish family was an inviolate haven against every formof menace, frompersonal isolationto gentile hostility. Regardless of internal friction and strife, it was assumed to be an indissoluble consolidation Family indivisibility, the first commandment.
We shall never sheath the sword which we have not lightly drawn until Belgium recovers in full measure all and more than all that she has sacrificed, until France is adequatelyassured against the menace of aggression, until the rights of the smaller nationalities of Europe are placed upon an unassailable foundation and until the military domination of Prussia is wholly and finally destroyed.
Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
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