Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Imminent danger.
- n. Exposure to the risk of harm or loss.
- n. Something that endangers or involves risk.
- v. To expose to danger or the chance of injury; imperil.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.
- n. In law, a source of danger: a possible casualty contemplated as the cause of loss or injury.
- n. =Syn 1. jeopardy, etc. See danger and risk.
- To hazard; risk; put in peril or danger.
- To be in danger.
Wiktionary
- n. A situation of serious and immediate danger.
- n. Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
- n. en; hazard; danger
- n. en; hazard; danger
- v. To cause to be in danger; to imperil.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.
- v. To expose to danger; to hazard; to risk.
- v. To be in danger.
WordNet 3.0
- v. pose a threat to; present a danger to
- n. a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury
- n. a state of danger involving risk
- v. put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- n. a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin perīculum; see per-3 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“American dream, in peril, is successfully pursued through state programs”
“When the peril is the criminal act of a third person, the argument continues, the duty of a landowner ... does not include the business visitor on residential premises among the special relationships imposing a duty to exercise care to protect against harm from others ....”
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“But, defendant asserts, that duty exists only if the peril is a condition of the property.”
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“The reality of this peril is apparent in the failure of the United States and Russia, until now, to ratify either the START 2 agreement or the Chemical”
“Today this peril is avoided with relative ease by removing the tumor.”
“And there is 10 surrounded by Daleks, the Earth in peril, Davros back ... and what's he thinking about?”
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“His schedule could not be a campaign swing designed to rescue loyal friends in peril, or to create a story line about his expanding political field.”
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“I felt no solicitude for the forecastle humans who struggled in peril of their lives beneath me.”
“Devastation from floods in Pakistan, heat waves on an unprecedented global scale and ominous peril from the melting ice caps in the Arctic Circle fall to the wayside en route to producing firm political resolutions under a veil of "scientific uncertainty.”
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“Although green iguanas are in peril, they are not considered an endangered species; they are considered to be a threatened species and today they are used mainly as pets with 800,000 imported to the U.S. in 1995 alone.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘peril’.
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Headlines & Newsmakers
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common UA vocab. in US
Interesting, there is a traditional vocabulary of an Ukrainian, that differs from vocabulary of average American. It would be nice to explore it.
jackdaw, incongruous, cassock, vivid, magpie, humdrum, amongst, wonder, wandering, wheedling, wheedle, osseous and 368 more...
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The Storybook Words
Words from children's literature that feed young imaginations and spark a love of words and language.
peril, sparkle, fizzle, kerfuffle, lachrymose, heebie-jeebies, turtleneck, peacoat, smarmy, daffodil, snapdragon, grouch and 1 more...
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VOCUBLARY
purge, wield, remedy, shepherd, numen, bizarre, enamor, bigotry, tumult, commotion, agitate, rebuff and 8 more...
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