Usually means: Put someone or something at risk.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word imperil:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. imperil: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. imperil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. imperil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. imperil: Collins English Dictionary
  5. imperil: Vocabulary.com
  6. Imperil, imperil: Wordnik
  7. imperil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. imperil: Wiktionary
  9. imperil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. imperil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. imperil: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Imperil, imperil: Dictionary.com
  13. imperil: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Imperil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. imperil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. imperil: Rhymezone
  17. Imperil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. imperil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. imperil: Free Dictionary
  20. imperil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. imperil: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Imperil: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See imperiled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To put into peril; to place in danger.
verb:  (transitive) To risk or hazard.

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