menace
noun
something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat.
menaced
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past participleof menace.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof menace.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
menacenounsomething that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat.
Example Sentences
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Hawaii was menaced by Hurricane Fausto last month, before the storm weakened and skirted north of the island chain.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Asian carp have taken over the Mississippi River and dozens of tributaries, where they have menaced native fish by eating much of their food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
Even when the whole family is menaced, as in “Poltergeist,” the evil entities have a special yearning to possess little blonde girls.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2025
Not the craggy summit looking over the Owens Valley 10,000 feet below nor the nearly vertical, several-hundred-foot drop that menaced just a few steps to the right.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
Our power and our fear of change help bind these people to their misery and bewilderment, and insofar as they find this state intolerable we are intolerably menaced.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
