peril

peril
    n 1: a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or
         misfortune; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard" [syn:
         {hazard}, {jeopardy}, {peril}, {risk}, {endangerment}]
    2: a state of danger involving risk [syn: {riskiness}, {peril}]
    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}, {peril}, {danger}]
    v 1: pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is
         endangering the crops" [syn: {endanger}, {jeopardize},
         {jeopardise}, {menace}, {threaten}, {imperil}, {peril}]
    2: put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
       [syn: {queer}, {expose}, {scupper}, {endanger}, {peril}]
    

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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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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Peril \Per"il\, v. i.
   To be in danger. [Obs.] --Milton.
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PERIL. The accident by which a thing is lost Lee,. Dr. Rom. 911. 
    

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