Usually means: Danger or risk of harm.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word peril:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. peril: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. peril: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. peril: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. peril: Collins English Dictionary
  5. peril: Vocabulary.com
  6. Peril, peril: Wordnik
  7. peril: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. peril: Wiktionary
  9. peril: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. peril: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. peril: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. peril: Dictionary.com
  13. peril: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. peril: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Peril (band), Peril: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Peril: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. peril: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. peril: Rhymezone
  19. peril: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. peril: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. peril: Free Dictionary
  22. peril: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. peril: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. peril: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. peril: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. peril: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PERIL: Acronym Finder

(Note: See periled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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