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Another word for peril

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Noun

  1. Exposure to possible harm, loss, or injury

    See also:

    safety

Verb

  1. To subject to danger or destruction

    See also:

    safety

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Another word for peril

Noun
  1. See also:

    danger

    danger

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Gibbon's stylistic artifice both averted the peril of prosecution and rendered the attack more telling.

  • The hour of peril for the Latin kingdom had now at last struck.

  • imminent peril of his life.

  • The " Yellow Peril " is considered less dangerous in Hawaii than formerly, although it was used as a political cry in the campaign for American annexation.

  • Nor was the peril wholly external.

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