menacing

Etymology

adj

  1. Synonym of threatening in its various senses.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of menace

noun

  1. The act of making menaces or threats.
    1824-1826, William Cobbett, History of the Protestant Reformation They remember his subornings, menacings, bribings, cuttings, maimings, hangings, and burnings.

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