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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
emperil .
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Examples
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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.
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Pipes were lowered into the mine shaft amidst desperate attempts to pump out the rising water clear of the emperiled workers below.
euronews 2010
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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
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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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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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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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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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