Synonyms for peril
ˈpɛr əlper·il

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1. perilnoun

   Synonyms:
   risk, threat, danger, hazard, jeopardy

2. perilnoun

   To cause to be in danger; to imperil.

   Synonyms:
   risk, danger, threat, jeopardy, hazard

3. perilnoun

   Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.

   The perils of the jungle (animals and insects, weather, etc)

   Synonyms:
   hazard, threat, risk, jeopardy, danger

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1. peril

   Danger is exposure to possible evil, which may be either near and probable or remote and doubtful; peril is exposure to imminent and sharply threatening evil, especially to such as results from violence. An invalid may be in danger of consumption; a disarmed soldier is in peril of death. Jeopardy is nearly the same as peril, but involves, like risk, more of the element of chance or uncertainty; a man tried upon a capital charge is said to be put in jeopardy of life. Insecurity is a feeble word, but exceedingly broad, applying to the placing of a dish, or the possibilities of a life, a fortune, or a government. Compare HAZARD.

   Synonyms:
   danger, hazard, insecurity, jeopardy, risk

   Antonyms:
   defense, immunity, protection, safeguard, safety, security, shelter

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1. peril

   Synonyms:
   danger, risk, hazard, jeopardy, insecurity, uncertainty, unsafety, venture

   Antonyms:
   security, safety, certainty

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1. hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk, endangermentnoun

   a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune

   "drinking alcohol is a health hazard"

   Synonyms:
   luck, jeopardy, chance, risk, fortune, riskiness, risk of infection, risk of exposure, hazard, danger, endangerment

2. riskiness, perilnoun

   a state of danger involving risk

   Synonyms:
   riskiness, jeopardy, hazard, danger, endangerment, risk

3. risk, peril, dangerverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   jeopardy, risk of infection, risk, riskiness, risk of exposure, hazard, danger, endangerment

4. endanger, jeopardize, jeopardise, menace, threaten, imperil, perilverb

   pose a threat to; present a danger to

   "The pollution is endangering the crops"

   Synonyms:
   imperil, stake, threaten, venture, jeopardise, endanger, menace, hazard, jeopardize, scupper, expose, adventure

5. queer, expose, scupper, endanger, perilverb

   put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

   Synonyms:
   scotch, bushwhack, let on, frustrate, bring out, unwrap, exhibit, disclose, endanger, foil, lurk, jeopardise, expose, waylay, reveal, debunk, thwart, imperil, threaten, give away, break, baffle, divulge, spoil, lie in wait, ambush, menace, jeopardize, scupper, cross, uncover, ambuscade, bilk, display, discover, let out

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1. perilnoun

   Synonyms:
   danger, hazard, jeopardy, risk, venture

2. perilverb

   Synonyms:
   risk, endanger, imperil, jeopard, put at hazard, put in danger, expose to danger

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1. perilnoun

   Synonyms:
   danger

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1. List of paraphrases for "peril":

   danger, risk, jeopardy, hazard

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1. The Post:

   To continue to hawk products emblazoned with this vile phrase puts the lives of Police Officers, and all law enforcement nationwide, at peril and risk.

2. Jerome Schlichter:

   This is fraught with peril both for employees and companies that choose to do this, there's a reason private equity investments have been limited to wealthy, sophisticated investors. This is grafting a product that wasn't designed to be in the retirement plan of an average investor into those retirement plans.

3. Ian Taylor:

   There is bound to be a huge amount of pressure on the Saudis from one or two people at that meeting to look at this policy again, i can not believe they will want to change their strategy at this moment in time, but you can't rule it out totally... I never like to pre-judge an OPEC meeting. You do that at your peril.

4. Neal Dunn:

   You haven't got anywhere to go( if the bridges close), and then you're riding it out in your car instead of something else. So, we need the residents to be leaving today because by this evening, those bridges are going to be in peril of being closed.

5. Lucretius:

   Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.