menacing : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: menacing	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for menacing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
menacing adj threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly" Synonym(s): baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Menace \Men"ace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Menaced} ([be]st); p. pr. & vb. n. {Menacing}.] [OF. menacier, F. menacer. See {Menace}, n.] 1. To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; -- usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war. My master . . . did menace me with death. --Shak. 2. To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted. By oath he menaced Revenge upon the cardinal. --Shak.