PERIL meaning: Danger or risk of harm

We found 35 dictionaries that define the word Peril:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

peril: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
peril: Merriam-Webster
peril: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
peril: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
peril: Collins English Dictionary
peril: Vocabulary.com
Peril, peril: Wordnik
peril: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
peril: Wiktionary
peril: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
peril: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
peril: Infoplease Dictionary
peril: Dictionary.com
peril: Online Etymology Dictionary
peril: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Peril (band), Peril: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Peril: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
peril: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
peril: Rhymezone
peril: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
peril: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
peril: FreeDictionary.org
peril: Mnemonic Dictionary
peril: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (7 matching dictionaries)

peril: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
peril: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
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Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
peril: Legal dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

peril: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (peril)

▸ noun:  A situation of serious and immediate danger.
▸ noun:  Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
▸ noun:  (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk.

Similar:

danger, jeopardize, Jeopardy, hazard, endanger, menace, imperil, threaten, risk, riskiness, more...

Opposite:

safety, security, protection

Types:

natural disaster, man-made disaster, accident, war, terrorism, crime, assault, arson, kidnapping, more...

Phrases:

yellow peril, multiple peril insurance, at one's peril, at ones peril, peril point, more...

Adjectives:

great, imminent, own, yellow, deadliest, extreme, gravest, constant, mortal, real, national

Colors:

crimson, blood red, scarlet, burgundy, maroon, more...