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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 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 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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