menace

noun

1. A perceived threat or danger.

   “the dark menace of the distant war.”

2. The act of threatening.
3. (informal)An annoying and bothersome person or thing.

verb

1. (ambitransitive, transitive)To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.

   “to menace a country with war”

   “My master […] did menace me with death.”

   “The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!”

2. (ambitransitive)To threaten (an evil to be inflicted).

   “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.”

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