Menacing meaning

adjective
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The definition of menacing is someone or something that is threatening or that suggests danger.

A scary man that comes at you with a gun is an example of someone who is menacing.

adjective
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An attempt to commit an assault.
noun
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Present participle of menace.
verb
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Suggesting imminent harm.
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Menacing Sentence Examples

  • He picked up a menacing looking tool.

  • She growled in a deep, menacing voice.

  • He cultivated good relations with England, in view doubtless of Russia's menacing attitude.

  • Still more menacing became the political situation on the outbreak of the French Revolution.

  • It was a weary and famished, but still a fighting and menacing army.

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