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. Paul Kirk:

   The unlimited amounts of money flooding our political system from a narrow and immensely wealthy slice of American society is the most pernicious internal peril threatening the fundamental tenets of economic, political, moral and social justice and, not least, the fairness and vibrancy of our representative democracy.

2. The Republican:

   The peril of again looking away from Putin’s tyranny falls not just on the people of the nations he has violated, it falls on America as well.

3. 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.

4. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface:

   All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril.

5. Henry Kissinger:

   The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.