Danger
['deɪn(d)ʒə] or ['dendʒɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a dangerous place; 'He moved out of danger'.
(noun.) the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury; 'you are in no danger'; 'there was widespread danger of disease'.
(noun.) a cause of pain or injury or loss; 'he feared the dangers of traveling by air'.
Checker: Micawber--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Authority; jurisdiction; control.
(n.) Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.
(n.) Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.
(n.) Difficulty; sparingness.
(n.) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
(v. t.) To endanger.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Peril, hazard, risk, jeopardy, venture.
Typist: Sanford
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Peril, hazard, risk, jeopardy, insecurity, venture
ANT:Security, custody, defense, safety, premunition, precaution
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Definition
n. peril hazard or risk: insecurity: (obs.) power.—v.t. (Shak.) to endanger.—adj. Dan′gerous full of danger: unsafe: insecure.—adv. Dan′gerously.—ns. Dan′gerousness; Dan′ger-sig′nal.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of being in a perilous situation, and death seems iminent,{sic} denotes that you will emerge from obscurity into places of distinction and honor; but if you should not escape the impending danger, and suffer death or a wound, you will lose in business and be annoyed in your home, and by others. If you are in love, your prospects will grow discouraging.
Editor: Ned
Examples
- But in the better grades of material the printing is well done, and the color designs are fairly fast, and a little care in the laundry suffices to eliminate any danger of fading. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I now take my farewell of your ladyship, and assure you that there's no danger of your ever being waited on by me again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But Coodle knew the danger, and Doodle knew the danger, and all their followers and hangers-on had the clearest possible perception of the danger. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- One would think we were going into danger, the way you talk, said Roylands impatiently, instead of a pleasant cruise in Greek waters. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- A naked savage found himself in the greatest danger. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Be assured, that for my own sake, as well as your's, I will not rashly encounter danger. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Ladies,' roared Mr. Pickwick, rendered desperate by the danger of his situation. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- And what danger is to be apprehended, Caroline, when daylight _is_ gone? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Though war and danger were in store, war and danger might not befall for months to come. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- However, if you don't object to a little danger, Crispin, I think we can get you out by another way. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It seemed to me that I had but closed my eyes when I felt her hand upon my shoulder and heard her soft voice warning me of a new danger. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- There is great danger of delay resulting in a campaign back to the Ohio River. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She was as if escaped from some danger. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Parting or danger are nothing to you. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But he said that he felt the danger which lay for him in your generosity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Carruthers has got a trap, and so the dangers of the lonely road, if there ever were any dangers, are now over. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I mean for dangers. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You will drive him to desperation, she said, and increase our dangers tenfold. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The chances and changes, the wanderings and dangers of months and months past, all shrank and shrivelled to nothing in my mind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The dangers and hair-breadth escapes of a life of adventures, instead of disheartening young people, seem frequently to recommend a trade to them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The emphasis in school upon this particular tool has, however, its dangers--dangers which are not theoretical but exhibited in practice. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- No dangers, I replied. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It is one thing to have been engaged in war, to have shared its dangers and hardships; it is another thing to hear or read about it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In spite of resentment, by day and night she figured to herself the toils and dangers of the wanderers. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The world has been roused--for a time at least--to great dangers and great desires. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the cause of friendship,' he fervently exclaimed, 'I would brave all dangers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The malarial mosquito and the typhoid fly flourish in unhygienic quarters, and the only way to guard against their dangers is to allow them neither food nor breeding place. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- After your dangers of last night, you must be quite worn out. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Through all such dangers, however, it was triumphantly brought, inch by inch, and arrived at its journey's end in fine condition. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And even should they escape that fate was it not but to be faced with far graver dangers? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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