If it's threatening you or otherwise posing some sort of danger, then it's a menace. Angry rabid dogs, smog clouds, and annoying little brothers are all probable menaces.
The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
Noun
a threat or the act of threatening; "he spoke with desperate menace"
Noun
something that is a source of danger; "earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan"
Verb
act in a threatening manner; "A menacing person"
Verb
express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture; "he menaced the bank manager with a stick"
Verb
pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops"
n.
The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or
threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
n.
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.
n.
To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.
v. i.
To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening
aspect.
Menace
His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his menaces.
The dark menace of the distant war.
Menace
My master . . . did menace me with death.2.
By oath he menaced Revenge upon the cardinal.
Menace
Who ever knew the heavens menace so?
The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.
Usage Examples
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
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Other Usage ExamplesI have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
Ignorance is a menace to peace.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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