1. 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
2. peril(n = noun.state) riskiness - a state of danger involving risk;
is a kind of danger
has particulars: speculativeness
Derived forms verb peril2, verb peril1, adjective perilous1
3. 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
1. 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 sentences:
Sam cannot peril Sue
2. peril(v = verb.communication) endanger, expose, queer, scupper - put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position;
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
Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction. [1913 Webster]
"In perils of waters, in perils of robbers." [1913 Webster]
"Adventure hard
With peril great achieved." [1913 Webster]
To expose to danger; to hazard; to risk; as, to peril one's life. [1913 Webster]
To be in danger. Milton. [1913 Webster]
peril, n. & v.
--n. serious and immediate danger.
--v.tr. (perilled, perilling; US periled, periling) threaten; endanger.
Idiom:
at one's peril at one's own risk. in peril of with great risk to (in peril of your life). peril point US Econ. a critical threshold or limit.
Etymology:
ME f. OF f. L peric(u)lum
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.