Meaning of PERIL
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- [n] a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury; "he saw the rewards but not the risks of crime"; "there was a danger he would do the wrong thing"
- [n] a source of danger; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard"
- [n] a state of danger involving risk
- [v] put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- [v] pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops"
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| | Synonyms: | | danger, endanger, endanger, expose, hazard, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, jeopardy, menace, queer, risk, risk, riskiness, scupper, threaten |
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| | See Also: | | affect, be, bear on, bear upon, chance, compromise, danger, exist, gamble, health hazard, impact, occupational hazard, speculativeness, subject, sword of Damocles, touch, touch on, venture | |
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\Per"il\, n. [F. p['e]ril, fr. L. periculum, periclum,
akin to peritus experienced, skilled, and E. fare. See
{Fare}, and cf. {Experience}.]
Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or
property to injury, loss, or destruction.
In perils of waters, in perils of robbers. --2 Cor. xi.
26.
Adventure hard With peril great achieved. --Milton.
{At}, or {On}, {one's peril}, with risk or danger to one; at
the hazard of. ``On thy soul's peril.'' --Shak.
Syn: Hazard; risk; jeopardy. See {Danger}.
\Per"il\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Periled}or {Perilled}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Periling} or {Perilling}.]
To expose to danger; to hazard; to risk; as, to peril one's
life.
\Per"il\, v. i.
To be in danger. [Obs.] --Milton.
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| | Related Terms: | | breakers ahead, cardhouse, cause for alarm, compromise, crisis, danger, dangerous ground, desultoriness, emergency, encounter danger, endanger, endangerment, expose, exposure, gamble, gamble with, gaping chasm, gathering clouds, hazard, house of cards, imperil, imperilment, incur danger, infirmity, insecurity, insolidity, instability, insubstantiality, jeopard, jeopardize, jeopardy, lay open, liability, menace, openness, pass, perilousness, pinch, plight, precariousness, predicament, put in danger, put in jeopardy, quicksand, risk, riskiness, rocks ahead, shakiness, shiftiness, shiftingness, slipperiness, speculativeness, storm clouds, strait, subjection, susceptibility, thin ice, threat, ticklishness, treacherousness, treachery, unauthenticity, unauthoritativeness, uncertainty, undependability, unfaithworthiness, unreliability, unsolidity, unsoundness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsubstantiality, unsureness, untrustworthiness, vulnerability |
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