menaced

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menaced - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Menace \Men"ace\ (m[e^]n"[asl]s; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     Menaced ([=a]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.
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              My master . . . did menace me with death. --Shak.
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     2. To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.
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              By oath he menaced
              Revenge upon the cardinal.            --Shak.
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