menace

1. (transitive) To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.Examples: "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!"ambitransitivetransitive