Definition of peril

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Peril (v. t.) To expose to danger; to hazard; to risk; as, to peril one's life..

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Unsafety :: Unsafety (n.) The quality or state of being in peril; absence of safety; insecurity.
Perilous :: Perilous (a.) Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking..
Parlous :: Parlous (a.) Attended with peril; dangerous; as, a parlous cough..
Abandon :: Abandon (v. t.) To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against..
Imperiled :: Imperiled (imp. & p. p.) of Imperi.
Brike :: Brike (n.) A breach; ruin; downfall; peril.
Hazard :: Hazard (n.) Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life..
Salvage :: Salvage (n.) The compensation allowed to persons who voluntarily assist in saving a ship or her cargo from peril.
Emperil :: Emperil (v. t.) To put in peril. See Imperil.
Extricate :: Extricate (v. t.) To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc..
Imperil :: Imperil (v. t.) To bring into peril; to endanger.
Scylla :: Scylla (n.) A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying Between Scylla and Charybdis, signifying a great peril on either hand..
Judgment :: "Judgment (v. i.) The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence..
Imperilment :: Imperilment (n.) The act of imperiling, or the state of being imperiled..
Imperiling :: Imperiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imperi.
Periculous :: Periculous (a.) Dangerous; full of peril.
Bestead :: Bestead (v. t.) To put in peril; to beset.
Periclitation :: Periclitation (n.) The state of being in peril.
Desperate :: Desperate (a.) Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune..
Slipperily :: Slipperily (adv.) In a slippery manner.
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