menaced

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Sporting what they regard as a face “the color of boiled turnips,” he is first discovered sitting on a steamer trunk in the hall, ripe to be menaced by the family’s dogs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Even when the whole family is menaced, as in “Poltergeist,” the evil entities have a special yearning to possess little blonde girls.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2025

After all, they inhabited a precarious cosmos where the prospect of drought menaced entire civilizations.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2024

But while Russian ships menaced off the Ukrainian coast, the small ports in the Danube river on the Romanian border kept working, offering a small but vital lifeline.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2023

The safety of the keepers is constantly menaced.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover