menace

Meanings

1. A perceived threat or danger.
2. The act of threatening.
3. An annoying and bothersome person or thing.

1. To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.
2. To threaten (an evil to be inflicted).
3. To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize.

Etymology

From Middle English manace, from Old French manace, menace, &c., from Late Latin minācia (“threat, menace”), from Latin mināx (“threatening”) + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns).