menace

A perceived threat or danger.

• the dark menace of the distant war.

The act of threatening.

An annoying and bothersome person or thing.informal

To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.ambitransitivetransitive

• to menace a country with war

To threaten (an evil to be inflicted).ambitransitive

• Upon his browes was pourtraid vgly death, And in his eies the furies of his heart, That ſhine as Comets, menacing reueng, And caſts a pale complexion on his cheeks.
• By oath he menaced / Revenge upon the cardinal.

To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize.ambitransitive