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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

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]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Peril \Per"il\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Periledor 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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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Peril \Per"il\, v. i.
   To be in danger. [Obs.] --Milton.
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5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

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

Thesaurus Results for Peril:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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