menacer

From menace +‎ -er.

menacer (plural menacers)

1. One who menaces.
   • 1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan the Terrible:

     Like a frightened deer Pan-at-lee cast a single startled look at these menacers of her freedom and leaped quickly toward the bushes in an effort to escape […]

• acremen

Inherited from Old French menacier, manecier, from Vulgar Latin *mināciāre, from Latin minācia (“threat”). Equivalent to menace +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /mə.na.se/

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menacer (transitive)

1. to threaten

   Synonym: proférer des menaces à l’encontre de

   • 2011, Andrew Klavan, Un tout autre homme, Calmann-Lévy:

     Une fois, il avait menacé d’intervenir pendant le service religieux.

     Once, he had threatened to intervene during the religious service.

   • 2013, Justine Augier, Jérusalem, Actes Sud Littérature:

     Délibérément le garçon envoie le ballon très haut, dans la direction de la femme qui continue de marcher, imperturbable tandis que le ballon redescend, menace de tomber sur elle ou son enfant.

     The boy deliberately sends the ball very high, towards the woman who keeps one walking, imperturbable, while the ball comes down, threatening to fall on her or her child.

2. to endanger, to jeopardise

   Synonym: mettre en péril

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

• menacer ruine
• menaçant

• “menacer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.