Peril

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Peril \Per"il\, n. [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.
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           In perils of waters, in perils of robbers. --2 Cor. xi.
                                                    26.
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           Adventure hard
           With peril great achieved.               --Milton.
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     {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.
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     Syn: Hazard; risk; jeopardy. See {Danger}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Peril \Per"il\, v. t. [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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Peril \Per"il\, v. i.
     To be in danger. [Obs.] --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  peril
       n 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}]
       v 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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PERIL. The accident by which a thing is lost Lee,. Dr. Rom. 911.