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"'The Cove' brings us some of the most magnificent creatures on the planet and shows us why their peril is our peril," noted Lionsgate vice chairman Michael Burns.

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  1. noun Imminent danger.
  2. noun Exposure to the risk of harm or loss.
  3. noun Something that endangers or involves risk.
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  • Calimehtar, son of Narmacil II, helped by a revolt in Rhovanion, avenged his father with a great victory over the Easterlings upon Dagorlad in 1899, and for a while the peril was averted. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • We lighted dark halls; closed the “cruller” bakeries in tenement-house cellars that had caused the loss of no end of lives, for the crullers were boiled in fat in the early morning hours while the tenants slept, and when the fat was spilled in the fire their peril was awful. —  The Making of an American
  • "'The Cove' brings us some of the most magnificent creatures on the planet and shows us why their peril is our peril," noted Lionsgate vice chairman Michael Burns. —  Variety.com
  • Then came another struggle, and at last the horse with the outfit stood on the safe portion of the dangerous trail; and the peril was at an end Oh!" —  Dave Porter in the Gold Fields The Search for the Landslide Mine
  • And now, though so great a peril was at hand, none at Rome thought or cared. —  Stories From Livy
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danger ·  hardship ·  calamity ·  disaster ·  misery ·  difficulty ·  temptation ·  hazard ·  embarrassment ·  threat ·  uncertainty ·  defeat

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peril:   perils
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin perīculum; see per-3 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English perill, perrill, parel, parrell; from Middle English peril, peryle, perylle, perele, pereile, perel, paril, parel, parell, from Old French peril, French péril = Provencal peril, perilh = Spanish peligro, Old Spanish periglo = Portuguese perigo = It.periglio, periclo, pericolo, periculo = Middle Dutch perijkel (E.obsolete pericle), from Latin periculum, periclum, a trial, experiment, test, essay, etc., also risk, danger, from periri, try, (peritus, tried, experienced); cf. Greek πειρᾱν, try, English fare1.
  2. from Old French periller, put in peril, be in peril, perish,= Spanish peligrar = pg. perigar = Italian pericolare, periglire, periculare, from Middle Latin periculare, endanger, peril, perish by ship-wreck, from Latin periculum, danger, peril: see peril, n. CF. periclitate.
 

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