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menage | menace |

As a noun menage

is condiment set (found on dining tables).

As a verb menace is

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menage

English

Alternative forms

* menage

Noun

(en noun)
  • A household; a domestic situation.
  • * 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 39:
  • It smelled of ether and something else, possibly laudanum. I had never tried the mixture but it seemed to go pretty well with the Geiger ménage .
  • A group of people living together in a sexual relationship.
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    menace

    English

    Etymology 1

    First attested ante 1300: from the (etyl) manace, menace, from the (etyl) .

    Noun

    (menaces)
  • a perceived threat or danger
  • * Dryden
  • the dark menace of the distant war
  • the act of threatening
  • an annoying and bothersome person
  • References

    * “ menace, n.'']” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989

    Etymology 2

    First attested in 1303: from the (etyl) menacer, manecier, manechier and the (etyl) manasser, from the assumed , whence .

    Verb

    (transitive'' or ''intransitive )
  • To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.
  • to menace a country with war
  • * Shakespeare
  • My master did menace me with death.
  • To threaten (an evil to be inflicted).
  • * Shakespeare
  • By oath he menaced / Revenge upon the cardinal.
  • To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize.
  • References

    * “ menace, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989 ----