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menacing

adj
/ˈmɛnɪsɪŋ/

Definitions

  1. Synonym of threatening in its various senses.

    • menacing look
    • menacing smile
    • menacing tone of voice

  2. present participle and gerund of menace

  3. The act of making menaces or threats.

    • 1824-1826, William Cobbett, History of the Protestant Reformation They remember his subornings, menacings, bribings, cuttings, maimings, hangings, and burnings.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at menacing. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01menacing02menace03annoying04irritation05annoys06annoy07bother08irritate09provoke10angry

A definitional loop anchored at menacing. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at menacing

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA