Usually means: Threat causing fear or danger.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word menace:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. menace: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. menace: Merriam-Webster
  3. menace: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. menace: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. menace: Collins English Dictionary
  6. menace: Vocabulary.com
  7. Menace, menace: Wordnik
  8. menace: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. menace: Wiktionary
  10. menace: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. menace: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. menace: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. menace: Dictionary.com
  14. menace (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. menace: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Menace (Atlas Comics), Menace (Greek settlement), Menace (Marvel Comics), Menace (Marvel Comics character), Menace (video game), Menace, The Menace (album), The Menace (newspaper): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Menace: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. menace: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. menace: Rhymezone
  20. menace, menace (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. menace: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. menace: FreeDictionary.org
  23. menace: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. menace: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. menace: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. menace: Legal dictionary
  6. menace: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. menace: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Menace: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A perceived threat or danger.
noun:  The act of threatening.
noun:  (informal) An annoying and bothersome person or thing.
verb:  (transitive) To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.
verb:  To threaten (an evil to be inflicted).
verb:  To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize.

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