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menace v. 1 threaten, intimidate, daunt, terrorize, terrify, cow,
bully, frighten, scare, alarm: The loan sharks menaced him when
he refused to pay.
--n. 2 threat, danger, peril, hazard, risk: The sunken wreck
is a menace to navigation. 3 intimidation, scare, threat,
warning, commination: According to law, a menace alone does not
constitute an injury.
menacing adj. threatening, looming, impending, ominous, frightening,
terrifying, intimidating, minacious, minatory or minatorial,
louring or lowering; dangerous, perilous, hazardous, risky,
chancy: Menacing storm clouds scudded across the darkening sky.
mend v. 1 repair, fix, patch (up), rectify, correct, remedy,
restore, rehabilitate; heal: When will you get round to mending
the roof? 2 correct, improve, better, ameliorate, reform,
revise, rectify, set or put right, emend: When are you going to
mend your ways? 3 heal, improve, recover, convalesce,
recuperate, get better: It took me a few months to mend after
the accident.
--n. 4 repair, patch: You can hardly see where the mend is. 5
on the mend. recovering, recuperating, convalescing,
convalescent, improving: The good news is that father is on the
mend after his attack.
menial adj. 1 lowly, servile, humble, subservient, base, low, mean,
slavish, demeaning, degrading, ignoble; routine, unskilled: He
took a number of menial jobs to pay for his daughter's wedding.
2 servile, fawning, grovelling, toadying, sycophantic,
obsequious, cringing, time-serving, flattering, snivelling,
Colloq boot-licking, Taboo slang brown-nosing: His insecurity
makes him surround himself with menial hangers-on.
--n. 3 lackey, flunkey, serf, slave, underling, minion, Brit
fag, Colloq Brit dogsbody, skivvy, US gofer: He works as one of
the menials in the hotel kitchen. 4 toady, sycophant, yes-man,
lickspittle, leech, parasite, time-server, Colloq bootlicker,
Taboo slang brown-nose(r): The film star was attended by a
retinue of menials, all anxious to keep in her favour.