Synonyms of the word menace


MENACEACT - BE - BEHAVE - DANGER - DO - ENDANGER - EVINCE - EXIST - EXPRESS - IMPERIL - JEOPARDISE - JEOPARDIZE - PERIL - SHOW - THREAT - THREATEN

menace

  • n. a perceived threat or danger.
  • n. the act of threatening.
  • n. an annoying and bothersome person.
  • v. To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.
  • v. To threaten (an evil to be inflicted).
  • v. To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize.

act

  • n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
  • n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
  • n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
  • n. The process of doing something.
  • n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
  • n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
  • n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
  • n. (countable) Any organized activity.
  • n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
  • n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
  • n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
  • v. (intransitive) To do something.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
  • v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
  • v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
  • v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
  • v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
  • v. (transitive) To play (a role).
  • v. (transitive) To feign.
  • v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

be

  • v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
  • v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
  • v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
  • v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
  • v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
  • v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
  • v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
  • v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
  • v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
  • v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
  • v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

behave

  • v. (reflexive) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
  • v. (intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To act in a polite or proper way.

danger

  • n. (obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In one's danger, below.
  • n. (obsolete) Liability.
  • n. (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
  • n. (obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
  • n. (obsolete) A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.
  • n. Exposure to liable harm.
  • n. An instance or cause of liable harm.
  • n. Mischief.
  • n. (mainly outside US, rail transport) The stop indication of a signal. (usually used in the phrase "at danger").
  • v. (obsolete) To claim liability.
  • v. (obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
  • v. (obsolete) To run the risk.

do

  • v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
  • v. (transitive) To perform; to execute.
  • v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
  • v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
  • v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
  • v. (transitive) To have (as an effect).
  • v. (intransitive) To fare; to succeed or fail.
  • v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
  • v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
  • v. To cook.
  • v. (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
  • v. (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
  • v. (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order,…
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
  • v. (transitive) (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
  • v. (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
  • v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it).
  • v. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
  • v. (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
  • v. (Britain, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
  • v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
  • v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
  • v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
  • v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
  • v. (transitive) To take drugs.
  • v. (idomatic, transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) to have a purpose or reason.
  • n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
  • n. (informal) A hairdo.
  • n. (colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument.
  • n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
  • n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
  • n. (archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do.
  • n. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
  • n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
  • adv. (rare) Abbreviation of ditto.

endanger

  • v. (transitive) To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To incur the hazard of; to risk; to run the risk of.

evince

  • v. (transitive) To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest.

exist

  • v. to be; have existence; have being or reality.

express

  • adj. (not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
  • adj. (comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
  • adj. Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
  • adj. (retail) Being a merchant offering a smaller selection of goods than a full or complete dealer of the…
  • n. A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.
  • n. A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
  • n. An express rifle.
  • n. (obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
  • n. A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
  • n. An express office.
  • n. That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
  • v. (transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
  • v. (transitive) To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
  • v. (biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
  • v. (biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
  • n. (obsolete) The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.
  • n. (obsolete) A specific statement or instruction.

imperil

  • v. (transitive) To put into peril; to place in danger or cause a hazard.
  • v. (transitive) To risk.

jeopardise

  • v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of jeopardize.

jeopardize

  • v. (US) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.

peril

  • n. A situation of serious and immediate danger.
  • n. Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
  • n. (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk.

show

  • v. (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
  • v. (transitive) To bestow; to confer.
  • v. (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
  • v. (transitive) To guide or escort.
  • v. (intransitive) To be visible, to be seen.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
  • v. (intransitive, racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
  • v. (obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
  • n. (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
  • n. (countable) An exhibition of items.
  • n. (countable) A demonstration.
  • n. (countable) A broadcast program/programme.
  • n. (countable) A movie.
  • n. (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance.
  • n. A project or presentation.
  • n. (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.
  • n. (mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.
  • n. (obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
  • n. (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.

threat

  • n. An expression of intent to injure or punish another.
  • n. An indication of potential or imminent danger.
  • n. A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.
  • v. (transitive) To press; urge; compel.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To threaten.
  • v. (intransitive) To use threats; act or speak menacingly; threaten.

threaten

  • v. To make a threat against someone; to use threats.
  • v. To menace, or be dangerous.
  • v. To portend, or give a warning of.
  • v. (figuratively) To be close to equaling or surpassing (a record, etc.).

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