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peril

Definition

  • noun: the possibility that you will be hurt or killed or that something unpleasant or bad will happen
  • noun: exposure to the risk of being injured, destroyed, or lost
  • verb: to expose to danger
  • usually used in the phrase 'in peril'
  • synonyms: risk, danger, jeopardy

Examples

  • No lifeguard is on duty: swim 'at your own peril'. [='at your own risk']

  • The species is 'in peril' [=(more commonly) 'in danger'] of dying out.

  • Restaurants that ignore the smoking ban do so 'at their peril'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Human beings venture into the highest parts of our planet at their peril. Some might think that by climbing a great mountain they have somehow conquered it, but we can only be visitors here. This is a frozen alien world. This is the other extreme - one of the lowest hottest places on Earth. (..)
    2006 TvShow: Planet Earth Title: Mountains Season: 1 Episode 2