Usually means: Endangered, at significant risk, threatened.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word imperiled:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. imperiled: Merriam-Webster
  2. imperiled: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. imperiled: Collins English Dictionary
  4. imperiled: Vocabulary.com
  5. Imperiled, imperiled: Wordnik
  6. imperiled: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. imperiled: Wiktionary
  8. Imperiled, imperiled: Dictionary.com
  9. imperiled: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Imperiled: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Imperiled: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. imperiled: FreeDictionary.org
  13. imperiled: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. imperiled: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (imperiled)

▸ adjective:  (biological conservation) at risk of becoming extinct

Similar:
endanger, jeopardize, threaten, peril, menace, biodeficient, life-or-death, near-endemic, biopreserved, polytypic, more...

Opposite:
safe, secure, protected

Types:
endangered, threatened, vulnerable, rare, extinct, more...

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Similar:
endanger, jeopardize, threaten, peril, menace, biodeficient, life-or-death, near-endemic, biopreserved, polytypic, more...

Opposite:
safe, secure, protected

Types:
endangered, threatened, vulnerable, rare, extinct, more...



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