menace

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A perceived threat or danger.
    — the dark menace of the distant war.
  2. The act of threatening.
  3. An annoying and bothersome person or thing. informal
动词 v.
  1. To make threats against (someone); to intimidate. ambitransitive,transitive
    — to menace a country with war
  2. To threaten (an evil to be inflicted). ambitransitive
    — Upon his browes was pourtraid vgly death, And in his eies the furies of his heart, That ſhine as Comets, menacing reueng, And caſts a pale complexion on his cheeks.
  3. To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize. ambitransitive

词形变化

menaces plural menaces present,singular,third-person menacing participle,present menaced participle,past menaced past

词汇关系

衍生词
lavender menace menaceful red menace yellow menace

词源

词源 1
From Middle English manace, from Old French manace, menace, &c., from Late Latin minācia (“threat, menace”), from Latin mināx (“threatening”) + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns).
词源 2
First attested in 1303: from Middle English manacen, from Old French menacer, manecier, manechier and Anglo-Norman manasser, from the assumed Vulgar Latin *mināciāre, from Latin minācia, whence the noun.
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