Definition of "menace" []

• A possible danger; a threat: the menace of nuclear war. (noun)
• The act of threatening. (noun)
• A troublesome or annoying person: a toddler who was a menace in a shop full of crystal. (noun)
• To utter threats against. (verb-transitive)
• To constitute a threat to; endanger. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Similar warnings are being issued across the country as Republican presidential candidates, elected officials and activists mobilize against what they describe as the menace of Islamic law in the United States."
• "Elsewhere, you note that the word "menace" gets attached to the sport."
• "Matching Lassick is the title menace, played surprisingly well-considering the make-up job-by character actor Stephen Furst ("