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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of emperil.

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Examples

  • Yes, the middle class is emperiled but only to the tune of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, not the millions that the privileged have at stake.

    Market mayhem survival tips 2008

  • Pipes were lowered into the mine shaft amidst desperate attempts to pump out the rising water clear of the emperiled workers below.

    euronews 2010

  • If they would have moved out of the picture, we might’ve been able to see a little more of our emperiled world.

    CNN Environmental Documentary Airs Tonight: Planet in Peril | Inhabitat 2007

  • I generally like Gwen Knapp's work as a columnist in the SF Chronicle (itself emperiled, by the way, in this toxic enviroment for newspapers

    Sportsfrog.com 2009

  • I generally like Gwen Knapp's work as a columnist in the SF Chronicle (itself emperiled, by the way, in this toxic enviroment for newspapers

    Sportsfrog.com 2009

  • I generally like Gwen Knapp's work as a columnist in the SF Chronicle (itself emperiled, by the way, in this toxic enviroment for newspapers

    Sportsfrog.com 2009

  • I generally like Gwen Knapp's work as a columnist in the SF Chronicle (itself emperiled, by the way, in this toxic enviroment for newspapers

    Sportsfrog.com 2009

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