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RELATED WORD : yellow peril

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun peril has 3 senses

• peril(n = noun.state) endangerment, hazard, jeopardy, risk - a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard"
is a kind of danger
has particulars: health hazard, moral hazard, occupational hazard, sword of damocles
Derived forms verb peril₂, verb peril₁, adjective perilous₁

• peril(n = noun.state) riskiness - a state of danger involving risk; Array
is a kind of danger
has particulars: speculativeness
Derived forms verb peril₂, verb peril₁, adjective perilous₁

• peril(n = noun.act) danger, risk - 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"
is a kind of venture
has particulars: chance, crapshoot, gamble
Derived forms verb peril₂, adjective perilous₁

Verb peril has 2 senses

• peril(v = verb.stative) endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, threaten - pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops"
is one way to be, exist
Derived forms noun peril₁, noun peril₂
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot peril Sue

• peril(v = verb.communication) endanger, expose, queer, scupper - put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position; Array
is one way to affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on
Derived forms noun peril₃, noun peril₁, noun peril₂
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

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THESAURUS

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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peril

Danger

N danger, peril, insecurity, jeopardy, risk, hazard, venture, precariousness, slipperiness, instability, defenselessness, exposure, vulnerability, vulnerable point, heel of Achilles, forlorn hope, leap in the dark, road to ruin, faciles descensus Averni, hairbreadth escape, cause for alarm, source of danger, rock ahead, breakers ahead, storm brewing, clouds in the horizon, clouds gathering, warning, alarm, apprehension, in danger, endangered, fraught with danger, dangerous, hazardous, perilous, parlous, periculous, unsafe, unprotected &c (safe, protect), insecure, untrustworthy, built upon, sand, on a sandy basis, wildcat, defenseless, fenceless, guardless, harborless, unshielded, vulnerable, expugnable, exposed, open to, aux abois, at bay, on the wrong side of the wall, on a lee shore, on the rocks, at stake, in question, precarious, critical, ticklish, slippery, slippy, hanging by a thread, with a halter round one's neck, between the hammer and the anvil, between Scylla and Charybdis, between a rock and a hard place, between the devil and the deep blue sea, between two fires, on the edge of a precipice, on the brink of a precipice, on the verge of a precipice, on the edge of a volcano, in the lion's den, on slippery ground, under fire, not out of the wood, unwarned, unadmonished, unadvised, unprepared, off one's guard, tottering, unstable, unsteady, shaky, top-heavy, tumbledown, ramshackle, crumbling, waterlogged, helpless, guideless, in a bad way, reduced to the last extremity, at the last extremity, trembling in the balance, nodding to its fall, threatening, ominous, illomened, alarming, explosive, adventurous, incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim, nam tua res agitur paries dum proximus ardet.

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