"menacing" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈmɛnɪsɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-menacing.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more menacing [comparative], most menacing [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} menacing (comparative more menacing, superlative most menacing)
  1. Synonym of threatening in its various senses. Synonyms: threatening [synonym, synonym-of] Derived forms: menacingly, menacingness, nonmenacing, unmenacing Translations (making threats): menaçant (French), bedrohlich (German), απειλητικός (apeilitikós) (Greek), minax (Latin), minitābundus (Latin), truende (Norwegian Bokmål), amenințător (Romanian), угрожающий (ugrožajuščij) [masculine] (Russian), amenazante (Spanish), menazante (Spanish), amenazador (Spanish) Translations (presenting a threat): menaçant (French), drohend (German), bedrohlich (German), amenințător (Romanian), amenazante (Spanish), amenazador (Spanish)

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈmɛnɪsɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-menacing.wav [Southern-England] Forms: menacings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} menacing (plural menacings)
  1. The act of making menaces or threats.
    Sense id: en-menacing-en-noun-QlqryzTV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 66 9 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 34 51 15 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 22 69 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 20 72 8

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈmɛnɪsɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-menacing.wav [Southern-England]
Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} menacing
  1. present participle and gerund of menace Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: menace
    Sense id: en-menacing-en-verb-6OO7aPuw

Inflected forms

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Download raw JSONL data for menacing meaning in All languages combined (6.2kB)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.