 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
peril
noun
1: a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or
misfortune; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard" [syn:
{hazard}, {jeopardy}, {risk}]
2: a state of danger involving risk [syn: {riskiness}]
3: 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" [syn: {risk},
{danger}]
verb
1: pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is
endangering the crops" [syn: {endanger}, {jeopardize}, {jeopardise},
{menace}, {threaten}, {imperil}]
2: put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
[syn: {queer}, {expose}, {scupper}, {endanger}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Peril \Per"il\, noun [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 one's peril}, 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}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Peril \Per"il\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Peril \Per"il\, verb (used without an object)
To be in danger. [Obs.] --Milton.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
75 Moby Thesaurus words for "peril":
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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