menace 的 3 个定义
- something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- a person whose actions, attitudes, or ideas are considered dangerous or harmful: When he gets behind the wheel of a car, he's a real menace.
- an extremely annoying person.
men·aced, men·ac·ing.
- to utter or direct a threat against; threaten.
- to serve as a probable threat to; imperil: overdevelopment that menaces our suburbs.
men·aced, men·ac·ing.
- to express or serve as a threat.
menace 近义词
danger; pest
bother, frighten
更多menace例句
- The country seems obsessed with imposing, bluff-fronted SUVs and trucks these days, and the Highlander conforms to this trend, albeit with less implicit menace than others have achieved.
- The energy swelled, ideas improved, and the menace returned.
- Now the counterterrorism apparatus has to shift its aim to a new menace, one that is more opaque and diffuse than Islamist networks, experts said.
- If they knock off the Tampa Bay Buccaneers next weekend, it’ll be because Sean Payton understood his team had shifted away from a points machine under Brees to a defensive menace.
- Wildfires in the West, hurricanes around the world, and an increasingly volatile climate were already a menace as the overheated Earth continued to run a fever.
- Hitchcock leans toward me in a conspiratorial, almost lascivious, way and says, “Let's pile on the menace.”
- The menace and abuse was constant; it reads as a household under siege.
- But as of Sept. 10, our intelligence agencies knew of no specific menace to the homeland.
- Unbridled nationalism is a menace; it leads to trade wars and, all too often, real wars.
- “I am convinced that the only way to fight this menace is by attacking it on many fronts,” he said in a letter to Congress.
- The menace of a thunder-cloud approached as in his childhood's dream; disaster lurked behind the quiet outer show.
- It was clear to every thinking man, American or European, that the control of such a formidable body was a menace to peace.
- When vicious animals are kept for any purpose and are a menace to human beings they are a nuisance.
- I dare not envy many a man:Who runs his life-race well; Whose brave, undaunted peasant bloodDeath's menace cannot quell.
- The worst cases we have are girls, and it is quite clear some of them are an absolute menace.