menace
noun
something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat.
had menaced
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past perfectof menace.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Dykes’s neighbors often wandered over to the cameras to offer their opinions of “the mean man” or “the shovel man” who had menaced those around his patch of soil for nearly two years.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2013
From its fields Jap planes had menaced U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Furthermore, said Clark, Pearson had menaced him with a "threatening gesture" just before he bopped Pearson in the lobby of Washington's Mayflower Hotel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since less than a fortnight earlier Baghdad had menaced Kuwait with more than 80,000 troops, Aziz's remark was disingenuous, if not absurd.
From Time Magazine Archive
The villagers remembered Matty as a fun-loving young man who had been destroyed when he fought the evil, unknowable forces that had menaced the village in those harsher times, seven years earlier.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
